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title: In Persian, "man" (من) means "me," and "nameh" (نامه) means "letter,… — Manama · tree and pragmatics
description: In Persian, "man" (من) means "me," and "nameh" (نامه) means "letter," similar to the structure of words like "Shah Nameh" (Book of Kings). Who acts: man, nameh. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Manama» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Manama, sentence 22

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From Wikipedia, [«Manama»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manama), 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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In Persian, "man" (من) means "me," and "nameh" (نامه) means "letter," similar to the structure of words like "Shah Nameh" (Book of Kings).

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**Who acts:** man, nameh · **What happens:** mean · **To what, where:** me, letter

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Manama». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, nameh), 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:Manama:22
# text = In Persian, "man" (من) means "me," and "nameh" (نامه) means "letter," similar to the structure of words like "Shah Nameh" (Book of Kings).
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	Persian	Persian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
7	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	من	من	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	8	punct	_	_
10	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
16	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	nameh	nameh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	_
19	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	نامه	نامه	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	20	punct	_	_
22	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
23	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	letter	letter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	27	punct	_	_
27	similar	similar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
28	to	to	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	structure	structure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nmod	_	_
33	like	like	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
34	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	36	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	Shah	Shah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	compound	_	_
36	Nameh	Nameh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	36	punct	_	_
38	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	39	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	Book	Book	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	appos	_	_
40	of	of	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	Kings	King	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	39	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	39	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present | man | me |  |  |  | in Persian | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot i=Theme in persian=Attribute |
| 2 | **mean** | present | nameh | letter |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent letter=Topic |

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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, «Manama», 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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