Saudi Arabia, sentence 29
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 word "Saudi" is derived from the element as-Suʿūdīyya in the Arabic name of the country, which is a type of adjective known as a nisba, formed from the dynastic name of the Saudi royal family, the Al Saud (آل سعود).
Who acts: Arabic name · What happens: derive, be, know, form, name · To what, where: word, element, type, adjective, dynastic name, country
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 (Arabic name), 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 | 2 word | det |
| 2 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 derived | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 Saudi | punct |
| 4 | Saudi | Saudi | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 word | appos |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 Saudi | punct |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 derived | aux:pass |
| 7 | derived | derive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 element | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 element | det |
| 10 | element | element | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 derived | obl |
| 11 | as | as | ADP | _ | 13 Suʿūdīyya | case |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 as | punct |
| 13 | Suʿūdīyya | Suʿūdīyya | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 derived | obl |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 name | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 name | det |
| 16 | Arabic | arabic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 name | amod |
| 17 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 derived | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 country | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 country | det |
| 20 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 name | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 type | punct |
| 22 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 type | nsubj |
| 23 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 type | cop |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 type | det |
| 25 | type | type | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 name | conj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 adjective | case |
| 27 | adjective | adjective | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 type | nmod |
| 28 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 adjective | acl |
| 29 | as | as | ADP | _ | 31 nisba | case |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 nisba | det |
| 31 | nisba | nisba | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 known | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 formed | punct |
| 33 | formed | form | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 derived | conj |
| 34 | from | from | ADP | _ | 37 name | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 name | det |
| 36 | dynastic | dynastic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 name | amod |
| 37 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 formed | obl |
| 38 | of | of | ADP | _ | 42 family | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 family | det |
| 40 | Saudi | Saudi | PROPN | _ | 42 family | compound |
| 41 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 family | amod |
| 42 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 name | nmod |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 Al | punct |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 Al | det |
| 45 | Al | Al | PROPN | Number=Sing | 42 family | conj |
| 46 | Saud | Saud | PROPN | Number=Sing | 45 Al | flat |
| 47 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 49 سعود | punct |
| 48 | آل | آل | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 سعود | compound |
| 49 | سعود | سعود | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 Al | appos |
| 50 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 49 سعود | punct |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 derived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derive | present · passive | the word | the element | as Suʿūdīyya; in the Arabic name of the country and a type | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.material»: subject=Result from element=Material | |||
| 2 | is a | present | the Arabic name of the country and a type | a type | of adjective | tree rules | |||
| 3 | know | participle | adjective not said here | as a nisba | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer as nisba=Attribute | ||||
| 4 | form | participle | the dynastic name of the Saudi royal family and the Al | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | name | the country | nom name «communication transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 6 | name | the Saudi royal family and the Al | nom name «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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