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title: The island came under the control of the Parthian and Sassanid empir… — Manama · tree and pragmatics
description: The island came under the control of the Parthian and Sassanid empires respectively, by which time Nestorian Christianity started to spread in Bahrain. Who acts: island, Nestorian. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Manama» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Manama, sentence 35

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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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The island came under the control of the Parthian and Sassanid empires respectively, by which time Nestorian Christianity started to spread in Bahrain.

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**Who acts:** island, Nestorian · **What happens:** come, start, spread · **To what, where:** control, Bahrain

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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 (island, Nestorian), 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:35
# text = The island came under the control of the Parthian and Sassanid empires respectively, by which time Nestorian Christianity started to spread in Bahrain.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	under	under	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	control	control	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
9	Parthian	parthian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	Sassanid	Sassanid	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
12	empires	empire	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
13	respectively	respectively	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
15	by	by	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	17	det	_	_
17	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
18	Nestorian	Nestorian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
19	Christianity	Christianity	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	flat	_	_
20	started	start	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	spread	spread	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	xcomp	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	Bahrain	Bahrain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | the island |  |  | the control of the Parthian empires |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under control=Location |
| 2 | **start** | past | Nestorian |  |  |  | time |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **spread** | to-infinitive | Nestorian *not said here* |  |  | Bahrain |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in bahrain=Location |

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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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