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title: In the ancient Persian calendar, Mehrgon fell in mid-autumn, symboli… — Tajikistan · tree and pragmatics
description: In the ancient Persian calendar, Mehrgon fell in mid-autumn, symbolizing the end of agricultural work and a time to thank the gods for prosperity. Who acts: Mehrgon. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Tajikistan» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Tajikistan, sentence 428

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From Wikipedia, [«Tajikistan»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tajikistan), 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 the ancient Persian calendar, Mehrgon fell in mid-autumn, symbolizing the end of agricultural work and a time to thank the gods for prosperity.

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**Who acts:** Mehrgon · **What happens:** fall, symbolize, thank · **To what, where:** ancient Persian calendar, end, gods

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Tajikistan». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mehrgon), 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:Tajikistan:428
# text = In the ancient Persian calendar, Mehrgon fell in mid-autumn, symbolizing the end of agricultural work and a time to thank the gods for prosperity.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	ancient	ancient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	Persian	persian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	calendar	calendar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	Mehrgon	Mehrgon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	mid-autumn	mid-autumn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	symbolizing	symbolize	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	agricultural	agricultural	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	thank	thank	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	advcl	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	gods	god	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	_
25	for	for	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	prosperity	prosperity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fall** | past | Mehrgon |  |  | the ancient Persian calendar |  | in mid-autumn | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in calendar=Location |
| 2 | **symbolize** | gerund | Mehrgon *not said here* | the end of agricultural work and a time |  |  |  |  | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot end=Theme |
| 3 | **thank** *speech: thank* | to-infinitive | Mehrgon *not said here* |  | the gods |  |  | for prosperity | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent god=Theme for prosperity=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, «Tajikistan», 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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