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title: Large-scale construction works began in the 1920s, and Tehran became… — Tehran · tree and pragmatics
description: Large-scale construction works began in the 1920s, and Tehran became a destination for mass migrations from all over Iran, especially in the 20th century. Who acts: scale construction, Tehran. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Tehran» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Tehran, sentence 9

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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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Large-scale construction works began in the 1920s, and Tehran became a destination for mass migrations from all over Iran, especially in the 20th century.

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**Who acts:** scale construction, Tehran · **What happens:** work, begin, become · **To what, where:** 1920s, destination

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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 (scale construction, Tehran), 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:9
# text = Large-scale construction works began in the 1920s, and Tehran became a destination for mass migrations from all over Iran, especially in the 20th century.
1	Large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	scale	scale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	construction	construction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	works	work	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	ccomp	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	1920s	1920s	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	Tehran	Tehran	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	destination	destination	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	xcomp	_	_
16	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	mass	mass	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	migrations	migration	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
19	from	from	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	all	all	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
21	over	over	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	Iran	Iran	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
24	especially	especially	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	20th	20th	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Ord	28	amod	_	_
28	century	century	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **work** | present | scale construction |  |  |  |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **begin** | past | scale construction *not said here* |  |  | the 1920s |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 3 | **become** | past | Tehran | a destination |  |  | century | for mass migrations from Iran | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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