Riyadh, sentence 103

From Wikipedia, «Riyadh», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.

They proposed that Riyadh will expand in the north-south axis along a commercial spine with and most importantly, that it will be divided into neighborhoods of 2 × 2 km blocks, thus solidifying the grid pattern to be the defining feature of Riyadh's layout.

Who acts: departments, Riyadh · What happens: propose, expand, divide, solidify, be · To what, where: south axis, spine, neighborhoods, grid pattern, defining feature

This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Riyadh». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (departments, Riyadh), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 proposed	nsubj
2	proposed	propose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	6 expand	mark
4	Riyadh	Riyadh	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 expand	nsubj
5	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 expand	aux
6	expand	expand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 proposed	ccomp
7	in	in	ADP	_	12 axis	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 axis	det
9	north	north	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 south	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 north	punct
11	south	South	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 axis	amod
12	axis	axis	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 expand	obl
13	along	along	ADP	_	16 spine	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 spine	det
15	commercial	commercial	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 spine	amod
16	spine	spine	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 expand	obl
17	with	with	ADP	_	20 importantly	case
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 importantly	cc
19	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	20 importantly	advmod
20	importantly	importantly	ADV	_	6 expand	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 divided	punct
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	26 divided	mark
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 divided	nsubj:pass
24	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 divided	aux
25	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	26 divided	aux:pass
26	divided	divide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 proposed	conj
27	into	into	ADP	_	28 neighborhoods	case
28	neighborhoods	neighborhood	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 divided	obl
29	of	of	ADP	_	34 blocks	case
30	2	2	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	34 blocks	nummod
31	×	×	SYM	_	32 2	case
32	2	2	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	30 2	nmod
33	km	km	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 blocks	compound
34	blocks	block	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 neighborhoods	nmod
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 solidifying	punct
36	thus	thus	ADV	_	37 solidifying	advmod
37	solidifying	solidify	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 divided	advcl
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 pattern	det
39	grid	grid	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 pattern	compound
40	pattern	pattern	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 solidifying	obj
41	to	to	PART	_	45 feature	mark
42	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	45 feature	cop
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 feature	det
44	defining	defining	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 feature	amod
45	feature	feature	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 solidifying	advcl
46	of	of	ADP	_	49 layout	case
47	Riyadh	Riyadh	PROPN	Number=Sing	49 layout	nmod:poss
48	's	's	PART	_	47 Riyadh	case
49	layout	layout	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 feature	nmod
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 proposed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	propose	past	departments = department				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	expand	future	Riyadh		the south axis	along a commercial spine	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with importantly=Instrument
3	divide	future · passive		spine	neighborhoods of 2 km blocks		vn multiply-108-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
4	solidify	gerund		the grid pattern		thus property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent pattern=Patient
5	is a	to-infinitive		the defining feature		of Riyadh's layout	tree rules

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.

Text: the English Wikipedia, «Riyadh», 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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Riyadh, sentence 103