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title: He also provided evidence that cities named "Shemiran" were colder t… — Tehran · tree and pragmatics
description: He also provided evidence that cities named "Shemiran" were colder than those named "Tehran" or "Kehran". Who acts: Tehran, cities. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Tehran» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Tehran, sentence 22

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From Wikipedia, [«Tehran»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tehran), 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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He also provided evidence that cities named "Shemiran" were colder than those named "Tehran" or "Kehran".

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**Who acts:** Tehran, cities · **What happens:** provide, name, be · **To what, where:** evidence, cities

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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, cities), 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:Tehran:22
# text = He also provided evidence that cities named "Shemiran" were colder than those named "Tehran" or "Kehran".
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	also	also	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	provided	provide	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	evidence	evidence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
6	cities	city	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
7	named	name	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
8	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	Shemiran	Shemiran	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
11	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
12	colder	cold	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	4	acl	_	_
13	than	than	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	12	obl	_	_
15	named	name	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	acl	_	_
16	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	Tehran	Tehran	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	_
19	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	Kehran	Kehran	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **provide** | past | Tehran | evidence |  |  |  |  | vn ensure-99 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition evidence=Theme |
| 2 | **name** | participle |  | cities *not said here* |  |  |  | Shemiran *xcomp* | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | past | cities | evidence *not said here* |  |  |  | than evidence; cold *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **name** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | Tehran or Kehran *xcomp* | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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, «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.

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