Saudi Arabia, sentence 226
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.
Participation in the political process is limited to a relatively small segment of the population and takes the form of the royal family consulting with the ulema, tribal sheikhs, and business elite on major decisions.
Who acts: royal family · What happens: limit, take, consult, form · To what, where: Participation, small segment, form, royal family
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 (royal family), 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 | Participation | participation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 limited | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 process | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 process | det |
| 4 | political | political | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 process | amod |
| 5 | process | process | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Participation | nmod |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 limited | aux:pass |
| 7 | limited | limit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 segment | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 segment | det |
| 10 | relatively | relatively | ADV | _ | 11 small | advmod |
| 11 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 segment | amod |
| 12 | segment | segment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 limited | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 population | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 population | det |
| 15 | population | population | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 segment | nmod |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 takes | cc |
| 17 | takes | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 limited | conj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 form | det |
| 19 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 takes | obj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 family | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 family | det |
| 22 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 family | amod |
| 23 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 form | nmod |
| 24 | consulting | consult | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 23 family | acl |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 27 ulema | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 ulema | det |
| 27 | ulema | ulema | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 consulting | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 sheikhs | punct |
| 29 | tribal | tribal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 sheikhs | amod |
| 30 | sheikhs | sheikh | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 ulema | conj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 elite | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 elite | cc |
| 33 | business | business | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 elite | compound |
| 34 | elite | elite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 takes | obl |
| 35 | on | on | ADP | _ | 37 decisions | case |
| 36 | major | major | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 decisions | amod |
| 37 | decisions | decision | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 elite | nmod |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 limited | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | limit | present · passive | Participation in the political process | to a small segment of the population goal | vn limit-76 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Patient to segment=Goal | ||||
| 2 | take | present | the form of the royal family | business elite on major decisions obl | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent form=Theme | ||||
| 3 | consult | gerund | the royal family not said here | with the ulema and tribal sheikhs | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with ulema=Co-Agent | ||||
| 4 | form | the royal family | nom form «communication 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.
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