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title: The feasibility study and conceptual planning of the construction of… — Tehran · tree and pragmatics
description: The feasibility study and conceptual planning of the construction of Tehran's subway system were started in the 1970s. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Tehran» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Tehran, sentence 289

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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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The feasibility study and conceptual planning of the construction of Tehran's subway system were started in the 1970s.

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**What happens:** start, plan, construct · **To what, where:** feasibility study, 1970s, construction, subway system

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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: 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:289
# text = The feasibility study and conceptual planning of the construction of Tehran's subway system were started in the 1970s.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	feasibility	feasibility	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	study	study	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	conceptual	conceptual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	planning	planning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	construction	construction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
11	Tehran	Tehran	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	's	's	PART	POS	_	11	case	_	_
13	subway	subway	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	system	system	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
15	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	started	start	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	1970s	1970s	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **start** | past · passive |  | the feasibility study and conceptual planning of the construction of Tehran's subway system |  | the 1970s |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
| 2 | **plan** |  |  | the construction of Tehran's subway system |  |  |  |  | nom planning «act transitive»: of=patient |
| 3 | **construct** |  |  | Tehran's subway system |  |  |  |  | nom construction «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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