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title: Changes to the urban fabric began with the street-widening act of 19… — Tehran · tree and pragmatics
description: Changes to the urban fabric began with the street-widening act of 1933, which served as a framework for changes in all other cities. Who acts: Changes. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Tehran» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Tehran, sentence 75

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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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Changes to the urban fabric began with the street-widening act of 1933, which served as a framework for changes in all other cities.

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**Who acts:** Changes · **What happens:** begin, widen, serve

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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 (Changes), 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:75
# text = Changes to the urban fabric began with the street-widening act of 1933, which served as a framework for changes in all other cities.
1	Changes	change	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
2	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	urban	urban	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	fabric	fabric	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
6	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
9	street	street	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	widening	widen	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	amod	_	_
12	act	act	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	1933	1933	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
17	served	serve	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
18	as	as	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	framework	framework	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
21	for	for	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	changes	change	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	26	det	_	_
25	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	cities	city	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **begin** | past | Changes to the urban fabric |  |  |  |  | with the widening act of 1933 | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with act=Subeventuality |
| 2 | **widen** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | street *compound* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **serve** | past |  |  |  |  |  | as a framework; for changes in all other cities; which *nsubj* | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent as framework=Attribute |

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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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