Riyadh, sentence 5
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.
The city sits at an average elevation of 600 m above sea level, and receives around 5 million tourists each year, making it the forty-ninth most visited city in the world and the sixth in the Middle East.
Who acts: city · What happens: sit, receive, make, visit, elevate · To what, where: average elevation, million tourists, city, 600 m
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 (city), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 city | det |
| 2 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sits | nsubj |
| 3 | sits | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 elevation | case |
| 5 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 elevation | det |
| 6 | average | average | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 elevation | amod |
| 7 | elevation | elevation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sits | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 m | case |
| 9 | 600 | 600 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 10 m | nummod |
| 10 | m | m | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 elevation | nmod |
| 11 | above | above | ADP | _ | 13 level | case |
| 12 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 level | compound |
| 13 | level | level | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 m | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 receives | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 receives | cc |
| 16 | receives | receive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 sits | conj |
| 17 | around | around | ADV | _ | 19 million | advmod |
| 18 | 5 | 5 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 19 million | compound |
| 19 | million | million | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 tourists | nummod |
| 20 | tourists | tourist | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 receives | obj |
| 21 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 22 year | det |
| 22 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 receives | obl:unmarked |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 making | punct |
| 24 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 receives | advcl |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 making | obj |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 city | det |
| 27 | forty | forty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 29 ninth | nummod |
| 28 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 27 forty | punct |
| 29 | ninth | ninth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 city | amod |
| 30 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 31 visited | advmod |
| 31 | visited | visit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 32 city | amod |
| 32 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 making | obj |
| 33 | in | in | ADP | _ | 35 world | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 world | det |
| 35 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 city | nmod |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 sixth | cc |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 sixth | det |
| 38 | sixth | sixth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 city | conj |
| 39 | in | in | ADP | _ | 42 East | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 East | det |
| 41 | Middle | Middle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 42 East | compound |
| 42 | East | East | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 sixth | nmod |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sits | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | present | the city | a average elevation of 600 m above sea level | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at elevation=Location | ||||
| 2 | receive | present | the city not said here | million tourists | year | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tourist=Theme | |||
| 3 | make | gerund | the city not said here | city | the ninth visited city and the sixth in the Middle East obj | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset it=Beneficiary city=Product | |||
| 4 | visit | participle | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | elevate | 600 m above sea level | nom elevation «event transitive»: of=patient |
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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