Saudi Arabia, sentence 317
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.
According to former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in December 2010, "Saudi Arabia remains a critical financial support base for al-Qaida, the Taliban, LeT and other terrorist groups...
Who acts: Saudi Arabia · What happens: accord, remain, let · To what, where: critical financial support base
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), 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 | According | accord | VERB | ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 Secretary | case |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 1 According | fixed |
| 3 | former | former | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 Secretary | amod |
| 4 | U.S. | U.S. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Secretary | compound |
| 5 | Secretary | Secretary | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 remains | obl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 Clinton | case |
| 7 | State | State | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Clinton | compound |
| 8 | Hillary | Hillary | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Clinton | compound |
| 9 | Clinton | Clinton | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Secretary | nmod |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 December | case |
| 11 | December | December | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Clinton | nmod |
| 12 | 2010 | 2010 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 11 December | nmod:unmarked |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Secretary | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 remains | punct |
| 15 | Saudi | Saudi | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 Arabia | amod |
| 16 | Arabia | Arabia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 remains | nsubj |
| 17 | remains | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 base | det |
| 19 | critical | critical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 base | amod |
| 20 | financial | financial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 base | amod |
| 21 | support | support | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 base | compound |
| 22 | base | base | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 remains | obj |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 al | case |
| 24 | al | Al | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 base | nmod |
| 25 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 Qaida | punct |
| 26 | Qaida | Qaida | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 al | flat |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 Taliban | punct |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 Taliban | det |
| 29 | Taliban | Taliban | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 al | conj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 LeT | punct |
| 31 | LeT | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 17 remains | conj |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 groups | cc |
| 33 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 groups | amod |
| 34 | terrorist | terrorist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 groups | compound |
| 35 | groups | group | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 LeT | conj |
| 36 | ... | ... | PUNCT | _ | 17 remains | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | accord | gerund | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | remain in a quote | present | Saudi Arabia | a critical financial support base | accord former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in December 2010; for al and the Taliban | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme base=Attribute | |||
| 3 | let in a quote | infinitive | Saudi Arabia not said here | other terrorist groups conj | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=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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