Riyadh, sentence 94
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.
According to Dr. Saleh Al Hathloul, former deputy minister of town planning, this era coincided with the period of sedentarization as nomads settled in and around towns and cities such as Riyadh.
Who acts: era · What happens: accord, coincide, settle · To what, where: era, towns
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 (era), 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 | According | accord | VERB | ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 Saleh | case |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 1 According | fixed |
| 3 | Dr. | Dr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Saleh | nmod:desc |
| 4 | Saleh | Saleh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 settled | obl |
| 5 | Al | Al | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Saleh | flat |
| 6 | Hathloul | Hathloul | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Al | flat |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 minister | punct |
| 8 | former | former | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 minister | amod |
| 9 | deputy | deputy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 minister | amod |
| 10 | minister | minister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Saleh | appos |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 planning | case |
| 12 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 planning | compound |
| 13 | planning | planning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 minister | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 era | punct |
| 15 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 era | det |
| 16 | era | era | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 settled | nsubj |
| 17 | coincided | coincide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 era | acl |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 period | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 period | det |
| 20 | period | period | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 coincided | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 sedentarization | case |
| 22 | sedentarization | sedentarization | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 period | nmod |
| 23 | as | as | ADP | _ | 24 nomads | case |
| 24 | nomads | nomad | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 coincided | obl |
| 25 | settled | settle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 26 | in | in | ADV | _ | 25 settled | advmod |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 around | cc |
| 28 | around | around | ADP | _ | 26 in | conj |
| 29 | towns | town | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 settled | obj |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 cities | cc |
| 31 | cities | city | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 towns | conj |
| 32 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 34 Riyadh | case |
| 33 | as | as | ADP | _ | 32 such | fixed |
| 34 | Riyadh | Riyadh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 cities | nmod |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 25 settled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | accord | gerund | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | coincide | participle | this era not said here | with the period of sedentarization; as nomads | vn amalgamate-22.2-2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Patient with period=Co-Patient | ||||
| 3 | settle | past | this era | towns and cities such Riyadh | accord Saleh Dr. | vn odge-46-1 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme town=Location |
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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