Saudi Arabia, sentence 276

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.

Retaliatory punishments, or Qisas, are practised: for instance, an eye can be surgically removed at the insistence of a victim who lost his own eye.

Who acts: instance, victim · What happens: practise, remove, lose, insist · To what, where: Retaliatory punishments, eye, insistence, own eye

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 (instance, victim), 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	Retaliatory	Retaliatory	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 punishments	compound
2	punishments	punishment	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 practised	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 Qisas	punct
4	or	or	CCONJ	_	5 Qisas	cc
5	Qisas	Qisas	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 punishments	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 punishments	punct
7	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 practised	aux:pass
8	practised	practise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	:	:	PUNCT	_	11 instance	punct
10	for	for	ADP	_	11 instance	case
11	instance	instance	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 practised	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 removed	punct
13	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 eye	det
14	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 removed	nsubj:pass
15	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 removed	aux
16	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	18 removed	aux:pass
17	surgically	surgically	ADV	_	18 removed	advmod
18	removed	remove	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 instance	acl:relcl
19	at	at	ADP	_	21 insistence	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 insistence	det
21	insistence	insistence	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 removed	obl
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 victim	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 victim	det
24	victim	victim	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 insistence	nmod
25	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 lost	nsubj
26	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 victim	acl:relcl
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 eye	nmod:poss
28	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 eye	amod
29	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 lost	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 practised	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	practise	present · passive		Retaliatory punishments Qisas		for instance	tree rules
2	remove	can · passive	instance not said here	a eye	the insistence of a victim	surgically property	vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
3	lose	past	a victim	Qisas's own eye			vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Eventuality
4	insist		a victim				nom insistence «communication intransitive»: of=agent

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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Saudi Arabia, sentence 276