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title: 1913: In Search of the World Before the Great War (2013) compares Te… — Tehran · tree and pragmatics
description: 1913: In Search of the World Before the Great War (2013) compares Tehran to 20 major world cities; pp. Who acts: 1913. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Tehran» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Tehran, sentence 418

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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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1913: In Search of the World Before the Great War (2013) compares Tehran to 20 major world cities; pp.

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**Who acts:** 1913 · **What happens:** compare · **To what, where:** Tehran

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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 (1913), 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:418
# text = 1913: In Search of the World Before the Great War (2013) compares Tehran to 20 major world cities; pp.
1	1913	1913	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	15	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	4	punct	_	_
3	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Search	Search	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	World	World	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	Before	before	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	Great	Great	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	flat	_	_
11	War	War	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
12	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	2013	2013	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	15	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	13	punct	_	_
15	compares	compare	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	Tehran	Tehran	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
18	20	20	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	21	nummod	_	_
19	major	major	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
20	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	cities	city	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	pp	page	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **compare** | present | 1913 | Tehran |  |  |  | to 20 major world cities and pp; Search of the World before the Great War *nsubj*; 2013 *nsubj* | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tehran=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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