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title: During the Persian campaign of World War I, Russian forces that were… — Tehran · tree and pragmatics
description: During the Persian campaign of World War I, Russian forces that were occupying the northwest of Iran marched around Qazvin and approached Tehran, causing a crisis and the dissolution of parliament. Who acts: Russian forces, World War. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Tehran» with its dependency tree and p
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# Tehran, sentence 68

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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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During the Persian campaign of World War I, Russian forces that were occupying the northwest of Iran marched around Qazvin and approached Tehran, causing a crisis and the dissolution of parliament.

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**Who acts:** Russian forces, World War · **What happens:** occupy, march, approach, cause, campaign, dissolve · **To what, where:** northwest, Qazvin, Tehran, crisis, parliament

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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 (Russian forces, World War), 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:68
# text = During the Persian campaign of World War I, Russian forces that were occupying the northwest of Iran marched around Qazvin and approached Tehran, causing a crisis and the dissolution of parliament.
1	During	during	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	Persian	persian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	campaign	campaign	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	World	World	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	War	War	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
10	Russian	Russian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	forces	force	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
12	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
13	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	occupying	occupy	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	acl:relcl	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	northwest	northwest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	Iran	Iran	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
19	marched	march	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
20	around	around	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	Qazvin	Qazvin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	approached	approach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
24	Tehran	Tehran	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	causing	cause	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	23	advcl	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	crisis	crisis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	dissolution	dissolution	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	conj	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	parliament	parliament	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **occupy** | past · progressive | Russian forces | the northwest of Iran |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus northwest=Experiencer |
| 2 | **march** | past | Russian forces |  |  | Qazvin | during the Persian campaign of World War  I |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme around qazvin=Trajectory |
| 3 | **approach** | past | Russian forces *not said here* | Tehran |  |  |  |  | vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tehran=Theme |
| 4 | **cause** | gerund | Russian forces *not said here* | a crisis and the dissolution of parliament |  |  |  |  | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition crisis=Patient |
| 5 | **campaign** |  | World War  I |  |  |  |  |  | nom campaign «event intransitive»: of=agent |
| 6 | **dissolve** |  |  | parliament |  |  |  |  | nom dissolution «process 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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