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title: By 1937, the city was heavily influenced by modernist planning patte… — Tehran · tree and pragmatics
description: By 1937, the city was heavily influenced by modernist planning patterns of zoning and gridiron networks. Who acts: planning patterns, zoning. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Tehran» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Tehran, sentence 78

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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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By 1937, the city was heavily influenced by modernist planning patterns of zoning and gridiron networks.

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**Who acts:** planning patterns, zoning · **What happens:** influence, pattern · **To what, where:** city

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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 (planning patterns, zoning), 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:78
# text = By 1937, the city was heavily influenced by modernist planning patterns of zoning and gridiron networks.
1	By	by	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	1937	1937	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
7	heavily	heavily	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	influenced	influence	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
9	by	by	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	modernist	modernist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	planning	planning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	patterns	pattern	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	zoning	zoning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	gridiron	gridiron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	networks	network	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **influence** | past · passive | planning patterns of zoning and gridiron networks | the city |  |  |  | by 1937; heavily *property* | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient |
| 2 | **pattern** |  | zoning and gridiron networks |  |  |  |  |  | nom pattern «cognition intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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