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title: Although Persians adopted the religion of their conquerors, over the… — Iran · tree and pragmatics
description: Although Persians adopted the religion of their conquerors, over the centuries they worked to protect and revive their distinctive language and culture, a process known as Persianization. Who acts: Persians. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Iran» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Iran, sentence 98

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From Wikipedia, [«Iran»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.

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Although Persians adopted the religion of their conquerors, over the centuries they worked to protect and revive their distinctive language and culture, a process known as Persianization.

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**Who acts:** Persians · **What happens:** adopt, work, protect, revive, know · **To what, where:** religion, centuries, distinctive language, process

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Iran». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Persians), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = wikipedia:Iran:98
# text = Although Persians adopted the religion of their conquerors, over the centuries they worked to protect and revive their distinctive language and culture, a process known as Persianization.
1	Although	although	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	Persians	Persian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	adopted	adopt	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	religion	religion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	conquerors	conqueror	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	over	over	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	centuries	century	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
13	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	worked	work	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	protect	protect	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	advcl	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	revive	revive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	conj	_	_
19	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
20	distinctive	distinctive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	language	language	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	culture	culture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	process	process	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	appos	_	_
27	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	acl	_	_
28	as	as	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	Persianization	Persianization	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **adopt** | past | Persians | the religion of Persians's conquerors |  |  | century |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent religion=Theme |
| 2 | **work** | past | Persians *= persian* | the centuries *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent century=Material |
| 3 | **protect** | to-infinitive | Persians *= persian* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn defend-72.3 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **revive** | infinitive | Persians *= persian* *not said here* | Persians's distinctive language and culture |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent language=Patient |
| 5 | **know** | participle |  | a process *not said here* |  |  |  | as Persianization | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer as persianization=Attribute |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** the English Wikipedia, «Iran», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. **Tree:** Mova's own parse, CC BY-SA 4.0 as the text is. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the article read in order, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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