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title: In English, it is also spelt "Teheran", with both variants being use… — Tehran · tree and pragmatics
description: In English, it is also spelt "Teheran", with both variants being used in books since at least 1800, and "Teheran" being the dominant form from after WWII until shortly before the Islamic Revolution. Who acts: website, spelt, Teheran. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Tehran» with its dependency tree and pr
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# Tehran, sentence 25

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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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In English, it is also spelt "Teheran", with both variants being used in books since at least 1800, and "Teheran" being the dominant form from after WWII until shortly before the Islamic Revolution.

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**Who acts:** website, spelt, Teheran · **What happens:** be, use · **To what, where:** spelt, English, variants, books, dominant form, WWII

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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 (website, spelt, Teheran), 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:25
# text = In English, it is also spelt "Teheran", with both variants being used in books since at least 1800, and "Teheran" being the dominant form from after WWII until shortly before the Islamic Revolution.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	English	English	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	also	also	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	spelt	spelt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	Teheran	Teheran	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
13	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	14	det	_	_
14	variants	variant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	books	book	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
19	since	since	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	at	at	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	least	least	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	22	nmod	_	_
22	1800	1800	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
25	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	Teheran	Teheran	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	26	punct	_	_
28	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	31	cop	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	dominant	dominant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	form	form	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
32	from	from	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	after	after	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	WWII	WWII	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	_
35	until	until	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	shortly	shortly	ADV	RB	_	16	obl	_	_
37	before	before	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
39	Islamic	Islamic	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	Revolution	Revolution	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | website | spelt |  | English |  | Teheran *appos* | tree rules |
| 2 | **use** | gerund · passive | spelt *not said here* | both variants |  | books | since 1800 at least; before the Islamic Revolution |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 3 | **is a** | gerund | Teheran | the dominant form |  | WWII |  |  | tree rules |

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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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