Saudi Arabia, sentence 179
From Wikipedia, «Saudi Arabia», 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.
Although male-only municipal elections were held in 2011, Abdullah allowed women to vote and be elected in the 2015 municipal elections, and also to be nominated to the Shura Council.
Who acts: Abdullah · What happens: hold, allow, vote, elect, nominate · To what, where: male municipal elections, 2011, women, 2015 municipal elections
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 (Abdullah), 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 | Although | although | SCONJ | _ | 8 held | mark |
| 2 | male | male | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 elections | amod |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 male | punct |
| 4 | only | only | ADV | _ | 6 elections | advmod |
| 5 | municipal | municipal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 elections | amod |
| 6 | elections | election | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 held | nsubj |
| 7 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 held | aux:pass |
| 8 | held | hold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 allowed | advcl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 2011 | case |
| 10 | 2011 | 2011 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 held | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 held | punct |
| 12 | Abdullah | Abdullah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 allowed | nsubj |
| 13 | allowed | allow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 allowed | iobj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 vote | mark |
| 16 | vote | vote | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 allowed | xcomp |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 elected | cc |
| 18 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 19 elected | aux:pass |
| 19 | elected | elect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 vote | conj |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 elections | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 elections | det |
| 22 | 2015 | 2015 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 24 elections | nummod |
| 23 | municipal | municipal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 elections | amod |
| 24 | elections | election | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 elected | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 nominated | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 nominated | cc |
| 27 | also | also | ADV | _ | 30 nominated | advmod |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 nominated | mark |
| 29 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 30 nominated | aux:pass |
| 30 | nominated | nominate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 allowed | conj |
| 31 | to | to | ADP | _ | 34 Council | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 Council | det |
| 33 | Shura | Shura | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 Council | compound |
| 34 | Council | Council | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 nominated | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 allowed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold | past · passive | male municipal elections | 2011 | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme in 2011=Location | ||||
| 2 | allow | past | Abdullah | women | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer woman=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | vote not said to happen | to-infinitive | Abdullah not said here | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | elect | infinitive · passive | Abdullah not said here | the 2015 municipal elections | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP» | ||||
| 5 | nominate | to-infinitive · passive | Abdullah not said here | to the Shura Council | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: to council=Attribute |
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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