Saudi Arabia, sentence 357
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.
In April 2020, Saudi Supreme Court issued a directive to eliminate the punishment of flogging from the court system, being replaced by imprisonment or fines.
Who acts: Saudi Supreme Court, punishment, imprisonment · What happens: issue, eliminate, flog, replace · To what, where: directive, 2020, punishment, court system
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 Supreme Court, punishment, imprisonment), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 2020 | case |
| 2 | April | April | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 2020 | nmod:unmarked |
| 3 | 2020 | 2020 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 issued | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 2020 | punct |
| 5 | Saudi | Saudi | PROPN | _ | 7 Court | compound |
| 6 | Supreme | Supreme | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 Court | amod |
| 7 | Court | Court | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 issued | nsubj |
| 8 | issued | issue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 directive | det |
| 10 | directive | directive | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 issued | obj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 eliminate | mark |
| 12 | eliminate | eliminate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 directive | acl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 punishment | det |
| 14 | punishment | punishment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 eliminate | obj |
| 15 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 16 flogging | mark |
| 16 | flogging | flog | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 punishment | acl |
| 17 | from | from | ADP | _ | 20 system | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 system | det |
| 19 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 system | compound |
| 20 | system | system | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 flogging | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 replaced | punct |
| 22 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 23 replaced | aux:pass |
| 23 | replaced | replace | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 issued | conj |
| 24 | by | by | ADP | _ | 25 imprisonment | case |
| 25 | imprisonment | imprisonment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 replaced | obl |
| 26 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 27 fines | cc |
| 27 | fines | fine | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 imprisonment | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 issued | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | issue | past | Saudi Supreme Court | a directive | 2020 April | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location directive=Theme | |||
| 2 | eliminate | to-infinitive | Saudi Supreme Court not said here | the punishment | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent punishment=Patient | ||||
| 3 | flog | gerund | the punishment not said here | the court system | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from system=Source | ||||
| 4 | replace | gerund · passive | imprisonment or fines | vn substitute-13.6.2-1 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme |
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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