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title: Eventually, Qajar king Agha Mohammad Khan chose Tehran as the capita… — Tehran · tree and pragmatics
description: Eventually, Qajar king Agha Mohammad Khan chose Tehran as the capital of Iran in 1786. Who acts: Agha. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Tehran» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Tehran, sentence 51

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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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Eventually, Qajar king Agha Mohammad Khan chose Tehran as the capital of Iran in 1786.

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**Who acts:** Agha · **What happens:** choose · **To what, where:** Tehran, 1786

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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 (Agha), 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:51
# text = Eventually, Qajar king Agha Mohammad Khan chose Tehran as the capital of Iran in 1786.
1	Eventually	eventually	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	Qajar	Qajar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod:desc	_	_
5	Agha	Agha	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
6	Mohammad	Mohammad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	flat	_	_
7	Khan	Khan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	flat	_	_
8	chose	choose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	Tehran	Tehran	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
10	as	as	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	capital	capital	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Iran	Iran	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	1786	1786	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **choose** | past | Agha  Qajar king | Tehran |  | 1786 |  | as the capital of Iran; eventually *property* | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tehran=Theme |

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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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