The Middle East and Central Asia, sentence 12

Saudi Arabia, with its capital Riyadh, contains Mecca and Medina, the two holiest cities of Islam, and it is the largest country in the world with no river that flows all year.

Who acts: Saudi Arabia, capital, river · What happens: contain, be, flow · To what, where: Mecca, largest country, world

This is a sentence of the lesson «The Middle East and Central Asia» of the geography course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Saudi Arabia, capital, river), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Saudi	Saudi	PROPN	_	2 Arabia	compound
2	Arabia	Arabia	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 contains	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 Riyadh	punct
4	with	with	ADP	_	7 Riyadh	case
5	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 capital	nmod:poss
6	capital	capital	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 Riyadh	compound
7	Riyadh	Riyadh	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Arabia	appos
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Arabia	punct
9	contains	contain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	Mecca	Mecca	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 contains	obj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 Medina	cc
12	Medina	Medina	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Mecca	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 cities	punct
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 cities	det
15	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 cities	nummod
16	holiest	holey	ADJ	Degree=Sup	17 cities	amod
17	cities	city	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 Mecca	appos
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 Islam	case
19	Islam	Islam	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 cities	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 country	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 country	cc
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 country	nsubj
23	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 country	cop
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 country	det
25	largest	large	ADJ	Degree=Sup	26 country	amod
26	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 contains	conj
27	in	in	ADP	_	29 world	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 world	det
29	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 country	nmod
30	with	with	ADP	_	32 river	case
31	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	32 river	det
32	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 country	nmod
33	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	34 flows	nsubj
34	flows	flow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 river	acl:relcl
35	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	36 year	det
36	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 flows	obl:unmarked
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 contains	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	contain	present	Saudi Arabia	Mecca and Medina				vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot mecca=Theme
2	is a	present	capital	the largest country	the world		with no river	tree rules
3	flow	present	no river			year		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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.

Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, mova-school-agreed-en.conllu) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence school:geography:012-middle-east-and-central-asia.lesson:12.

The tree: Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×1. The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.

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