Saudi Arabia, sentence 189
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.
The main topographical feature is the central plateau which rises abruptly from the Red Sea and gradually descends into the Nejd and toward the Persian Gulf.
Who acts: main topographical feature, central plateau · What happens: be, rise, descend · To what, where: central plateau, Red Sea, Nejd
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 (main topographical feature, central plateau), 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 | 4 feature | det |
| 2 | main | main | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 feature | amod |
| 3 | topographical | topographical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 feature | amod |
| 4 | feature | feature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 plateau | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 plateau | cop |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 plateau | det |
| 7 | central | central | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 plateau | amod |
| 8 | plateau | plateau | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 rises | nsubj |
| 10 | rises | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 plateau | acl:relcl |
| 11 | abruptly | abruptly | ADV | _ | 10 rises | advmod |
| 12 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 Sea | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Sea | det |
| 14 | Red | Red | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Sea | compound |
| 15 | Sea | Sea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 rises | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 descends | cc |
| 17 | gradually | gradually | ADV | _ | 18 descends | advmod |
| 18 | descends | descend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 rises | conj |
| 19 | into | into | ADP | _ | 21 Nejd | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Nejd | det |
| 21 | Nejd | Nejd | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 descends | obl |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 Gulf | cc |
| 23 | toward | toward | ADP | _ | 26 Gulf | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 Gulf | det |
| 25 | Persian | Persian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 Gulf | compound |
| 26 | Gulf | Gulf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Nejd | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 plateau | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the main topographical feature | the central plateau | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | rise | present | the central plateau | the Red Sea | abruptly property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from sea=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | descend | present | the central plateau not said here | the Nejd and the Persian Gulf | gradually property | vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into nejd=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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