Saudi Arabia, sentence 299

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.

Saudi Arabia has traditionally sought to preserve the regional status quo by using its financial, diplomatic, and military resources to limit the effects of revolutionary uprisings in neighbouring countries.

Who acts: Saudi Arabia, military resources · What happens: seek, preserve, use, limit, effect · To what, where: regional status quo, financial, effects, revolutionary uprisings

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 (Saudi Arabia, military resources), 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	Saudi	Saudi	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 Arabia	amod
2	Arabia	Arabia	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 sought	nsubj
3	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 sought	aux
4	traditionally	traditionally	ADV	_	5 sought	advmod
5	sought	seek	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 preserve	mark
7	preserve	preserve	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 sought	xcomp
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 quo	det
9	regional	regional	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 quo	amod
10	status	status	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 quo	compound
11	quo	quo	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 preserve	obj
12	by	by	SCONJ	_	13 using	mark
13	using	use	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 preserve	advcl
14	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 financial	nmod:poss
15	financial	financial	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 using	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 diplomatic	punct
17	diplomatic	diplomatic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 financial	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 limit	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 limit	cc
20	military	military	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 resources	amod
21	resources	resource	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 limit	nsubj
22	to	to	PART	_	23 limit	mark
23	limit	limit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 sought	conj
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 effects	det
25	effects	effect	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 limit	obj
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 uprisings	case
27	revolutionary	revolutionary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 uprisings	amod
28	uprisings	uprising	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 effects	nmod
29	in	in	ADP	_	31 countries	case
30	neighbouring	neighbouring	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 countries	amod
31	countries	country	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 uprisings	nmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 sought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	seek	present · perfect	Saudi Arabia		traditionally property	tree rules
2	preserve not said to happen	to-infinitive	Saudi Arabia not said here	the regional status quo		vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent quo=Beneficiary
3	use	gerund	Saudi Arabia not said here	quo's financial		vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent financial=Patient
4	limit	to-infinitive	military resources	the effects of revolutionary uprisings in neighbouring countries		vn limit-76 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer effect=Patient
5	effect			revolutionary uprisings in neighbouring countries		nom effect «phenomenon 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.

Text: the English Wikipedia, «Saudi Arabia», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. Tree: Mova's own parse, CC BY-SA 4.0 as the text is. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the article read in order, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Saudi Arabia, sentence 299