--- title: On 3 February 2014, Tehran received heavy snowfall, specifically in… — Tehran · tree and pragmatics description: On 3 February 2014, Tehran received heavy snowfall, specifically in the northern parts of the city, with a depth of 2 m. In one week of successive snowfalls, roads were made impassable in some areas, with the temperature ranging from -8 to -16 C. 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In one week of successive snowfalls, roads were made impassable in some areas, with the temperature ranging from -8 to -16 C. On 3 June 2014, a severe thunderstorm with powerful microbursts created a haboob, engulfing Tehran in sand and dust and causing five deaths, with more than 57 injured. **Who acts:** Tehran, depth, temperature, powerful microbursts · **What happens:** receive, make, range, create, engulf, cause · **To what, where:** heavy snowfall, 3, roads, areas, 8 C., haboob This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Tehran». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tehran, depth, temperature, powerful microbursts), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:Tehran:198 # text = On 3 February 2014, Tehran received heavy snowfall, specifically in the northern parts of the city, with a depth of 2 m. In one week of successive snowfalls, roads were made impassable in some areas, with the temperature ranging from -8 to -16 C. On 3 June 2014, a severe thunderstorm with powerful microbursts created a haboob, engulfing Tehran in sand and dust and causing five deaths, with more than 57 injured. 1 On on ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 3 3 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 7 obl _ _ 3 February February PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nmod:unmarked _ _ 4 2014 2014 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 2 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 6 Tehran Tehran PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 7 received receive VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 heavy heavy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 snowfall snowfall NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 11 specifically specifically ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 12 in in ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 northern northern ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 parts part NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nmod _ _ 16 of of ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 city city NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 20 with with ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 depth depth NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 23 of of ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 2 2 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 25 nummod _ _ 25 m. m. NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nmod _ _ 26 In in ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 28 nummod _ _ 28 week week NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nmod _ _ 29 of of ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 successive successive ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 snowfalls snowfall NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 33 roads road NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 nsubj:pass _ _ 34 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 35 aux:pass _ _ 35 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 22 acl _ _ 36 impassable impassable ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 xcomp _ _ 37 in in ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 39 det _ _ 39 areas area NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 40 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 41 with with ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 42 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 43 temperature temperature NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl _ _ 44 ranging range VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 43 acl _ _ 45 from from ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 46 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 45 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 47 8 8 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 51 nummod _ _ 48 to to ADP IN _ 50 case _ _ 49 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 48 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 50 16 16 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 47 nmod _ _ 51 C. c. NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 obj _ _ 52 On on ADP IN _ 54 case _ _ 53 3 3 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 54 nummod _ _ 54 June June PROPN NNP Number=Sing 44 obl _ _ 55 2014 2014 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 54 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 56 , , PUNCT , _ 59 punct _ _ 57 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 59 det _ _ 58 severe severe ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 59 amod _ _ 59 thunderstorm thunderstorm NOUN NN Number=Sing 54 appos _ _ 60 with with SCONJ IN _ 63 mark _ _ 61 powerful powerful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 62 amod _ _ 62 microbursts microburst NOUN NNS Number=Plur 63 nsubj _ _ 63 created create VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 59 acl:relcl _ _ 64 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 65 det _ _ 65 haboob haboob NOUN NN Number=Sing 63 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 66 , , PUNCT , _ 67 punct _ _ 67 engulfing engulf VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 44 conj _ _ 68 Tehran Tehran PROPN NNP Number=Sing 67 obj _ _ 69 in in ADP IN _ 70 case _ _ 70 sand sand NOUN NN Number=Sing 67 obl _ _ 71 and and CCONJ CC _ 72 cc _ _ 72 dust dust NOUN NN Number=Sing 70 conj _ _ 73 and and CCONJ CC _ 74 cc _ _ 74 causing cause VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 44 conj _ _ 75 five five NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 76 nummod _ _ 76 deaths death NOUN NNS Number=Plur 74 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 77 , , PUNCT , _ 82 punct _ _ 78 with with SCONJ IN _ 82 mark _ _ 79 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV 81 advmod _ _ 80 than than ADP IN _ 79 fixed _ _ 81 57 57 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 82 nsubj:pass _ _ 82 injured injure VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 74 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 83 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **receive** | past | Tehran | heavy snowfall | | 3 2014 February | | in the northern parts of the city; with a depth of 2 m. in one week of successive snowfalls | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent snowfall=Theme on 3=Location | | 2 | **make** | past · passive | a depth of 2 m. in one week of successive snowfalls *not said here* | roads | | some areas | | with the temperature; impassable *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | | 3 | **range** | gerund | the temperature *not said here* | 8 C. | | | june | | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location c.=Theme | | 4 | **create** | past | powerful microbursts | a haboob | | | | | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent haboob=Result | | 5 | **engulf** | gerund | the temperature *not said here* | Tehran | | sand and dust | | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme tehran=Co-Theme | | 6 | **cause** | gerund | the temperature *not said here* | five deaths | | | | | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition death=Patient | | 7 | **injure** | participle · passive | | 57 | | | | | tree rules | 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. **Text:** the English Wikipedia, «Tehran», 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. - ← previous: [sentence 197](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Tehran/197/) - next →: [sentence 199](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Tehran/199/) - ↑ back to [Tehran](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Tehran/)