Saudi Arabia, sentence 122
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In 1938, vast reserves of oil were discovered in the Al-Ahsa region along the coast of the Persian Gulf, and full-scale development of the oil fields began in 1941 under the US-controlled Aramco (Arabian American Oil Company).
Who acts: scale development · What happens: discover, begin, control, develop · To what, where: vast reserves, 1938, 1941, oil fields
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Saudi Arabia». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (scale development), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 1938 | case |
| 2 | 1938 | 1938 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 discovered | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 1938 | punct |
| 4 | vast | vast | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 reserves | amod |
| 5 | reserves | reserve | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 discovered | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 oil | case |
| 7 | oil | oil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 reserves | nmod |
| 8 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 discovered | aux:pass |
| 9 | discovered | discover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 region | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 region | det |
| 12 | Al | Al | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Ahsa | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 Al | punct |
| 14 | Ahsa | Ahsa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 region | compound |
| 15 | region | region | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 discovered | obl |
| 16 | along | along | ADP | _ | 18 coast | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 coast | det |
| 18 | coast | coast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 discovered | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 Gulf | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Gulf | det |
| 21 | Persian | Persian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Gulf | compound |
| 22 | Gulf | Gulf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 coast | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 development | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 development | cc |
| 25 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 scale | amod |
| 26 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 25 full | punct |
| 27 | scale | scale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 development | compound |
| 28 | development | development | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 began | nsubj |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 fields | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 fields | det |
| 31 | oil | oil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 fields | compound |
| 32 | fields | field | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 development | nmod |
| 33 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 discovered | parataxis |
| 34 | in | in | ADP | _ | 35 1941 | case |
| 35 | 1941 | 1941 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 33 began | obl |
| 36 | under | under | ADP | _ | 41 Aramco | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 Aramco | det |
| 38 | US | US | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 controlled | compound |
| 39 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 38 US | punct |
| 40 | controlled | control | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 41 Aramco | amod |
| 41 | Aramco | Aramco | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 began | obl |
| 42 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 46 Company | punct |
| 43 | Arabian | Arabian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 Company | amod |
| 44 | American | American | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 Company | amod |
| 45 | Oil | Oil | PROPN | Number=Sing | 46 Company | compound |
| 46 | Company | Company | PROPN | Number=Sing | 41 Aramco | appos |
| 47 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 46 Company | punct |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 discovered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | discover | past · passive | vast reserves of oil | 1938 | in the Ahsa region; along the coast of the Persian Gulf | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | |||
| 2 | begin | past | scale development of the oil fields | 1941 | under the controlled Aramco | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||
| 3 | control | participle | US compound | vn enforce-63 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | develop | the oil fields | nom development «act 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, «Saudi Arabia», 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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