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title: Following a brief period of Ottoman rule over Eastern Armenia betwee… — Yerevan · tree and pragmatics
description: Following a brief period of Ottoman rule over Eastern Armenia between 1724 and 1736, and as a result of the fall of the Safavid dynasty in 1736, Yerevan along with the adjacent territories became part of the newly formed administrative territory of Erivan Khanate under the Afsharid dynasty of Iran, 
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# Yerevan, sentence 136

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From Wikipedia, [«Yerevan»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yerevan), 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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Following a brief period of Ottoman rule over Eastern Armenia between 1724 and 1736, and as a result of the fall of the Safavid dynasty in 1736, Yerevan along with the adjacent territories became part of the newly formed administrative territory of Erivan Khanate under the Afsharid dynasty of Iran, which encompassed an area of 15,000 km².

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**Who acts:** Yerevan, Afsharid dynasty · **What happens:** follow, become, form, encompass, result · **To what, where:** brief period, part, area, fall

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Yerevan». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Yerevan, Afsharid dynasty), 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:Yerevan:136
# text = Following a brief period of Ottoman rule over Eastern Armenia between 1724 and 1736, and as a result of the fall of the Safavid dynasty in 1736, Yerevan along with the adjacent territories became part of the newly formed administrative territory of Erivan Khanate under the Afsharid dynasty of Iran, which encompassed an area of 15,000 km².
1	Following	follow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	36	csubj	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	brief	brief	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	period	period	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	Ottoman	ottoman	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	rule	rule	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	over	over	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	Eastern	eastern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	Armenia	Armenia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	between	between	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	1724	1724	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	nmod	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	1736	1736	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
17	as	as	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	result	result	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	fall	fall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	Safavid	Safavid	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	dynasty	dynasty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	1736	1736	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
30	Yerevan	Yerevan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	nsubj	_	_
31	along	along	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
32	with	with	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	adjacent	adjacent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	territories	territory	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	nsubj	_	_
36	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
37	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	xcomp	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
40	newly	newly	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	_
41	formed	form	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	43	amod	_	_
42	administrative	administrative	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
43	territory	territory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nmod	_	_
44	of	of	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
45	Erivan	Erivan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	43	nmod	_	_
46	Khanate	Khanate	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	45	flat	_	_
47	under	under	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
48	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
49	Afsharid	Afsharid	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	50	compound	_	_
50	dynasty	dynasty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	nmod	_	_
51	of	of	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
52	Iran	Iran	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	50	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	55	punct	_	_
54	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	55	nsubj	_	_
55	encompassed	encompass	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	50	acl:relcl	_	_
56	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	57	det	_	_
57	area	area	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	55	obj	_	_
58	of	of	ADP	IN	_	61	case	_	_
59	15,000	15000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	60	nummod	_	_
60	km	km	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	61	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	²	²	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	57	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
62	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	36	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **follow** | gerund |  | a brief period of Ottoman rule over Eastern Armenia between 1724 |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent period=Theme |
| 2 | **become** | past | Yerevan | part of the formed administrative territory of Erivan under the Afsharid dynasty of Iran |  |  |  | as a result of the fall of the Safavid dynasty in 1736; the adjacent territories *nsubj* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **form** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | newly *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **encompass** | past | the Afsharid dynasty of Iran | a area of km ² |  |  |  |  | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot area=Theme |
| 5 | **result** |  |  | the fall of the Safavid dynasty in 1736 |  |  |  |  | nom result «phenomenon 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, «Yerevan», 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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