Saudi Arabia, sentence 364
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.
However, an investigation by The Guardian newspaper in 2025 found that the Dar al-Reaya, officially "care homes", continued to be effectively "jails" for women whose families wished to institutionalize them for disobedience, extramarital sexual relations or being absent from home.
Who acts: investigation, families, Guardian newspaper · What happens: find, continue, be, wish, institutionalize, investigate · To what, where: Dar al, Women, home
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 (investigation, families, Guardian newspaper), 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 | However | however | ADV | _ | 11 found | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 However | punct |
| 3 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 investigation | det |
| 4 | investigation | investigation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 found | nsubj |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 newspaper | case |
| 6 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 newspaper | det |
| 7 | Guardian | guardian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 newspaper | amod |
| 8 | newspaper | newspaper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 investigation | nmod |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 2025 | case |
| 10 | 2025 | 2025 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 newspaper | nmod |
| 11 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 al | mark |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 al | det |
| 14 | Dar | Dar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 al | compound |
| 15 | al | Al | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 found | obj |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 Reaya | punct |
| 17 | Reaya | Reaya | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 al | flat |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 homes | punct |
| 19 | officially | officially | ADV | _ | 22 homes | advmod |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 homes | punct |
| 21 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 homes | compound |
| 22 | homes | home | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 al | appos |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 homes | punct |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 continued | punct |
| 25 | continued | continue | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 al | parataxis |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 effectively | mark |
| 27 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 28 effectively | cop |
| 28 | effectively | effectively | ADV | _ | 25 continued | advmod |
| 29 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 30 jails | punct |
| 30 | jails | jail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 effectively | appos |
| 31 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 30 jails | punct |
| 32 | for | for | ADP | _ | 33 women | case |
| 33 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 continued | obl |
| 34 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 35 families | nmod:poss |
| 35 | families | family | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 wished | nsubj |
| 36 | wished | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 women | acl:relcl |
| 37 | to | to | PART | _ | 38 institutionalize | mark |
| 38 | institutionalize | institutionalize | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 36 wished | xcomp |
| 39 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 institutionalize | obj |
| 40 | for | for | ADP | _ | 41 disobedience | case |
| 41 | disobedience | disobedience | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 institutionalize | obl |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 relations | punct |
| 43 | extramarital | extramarital | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 relations | amod |
| 44 | sexual | sexual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 relations | amod |
| 45 | relations | relation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 disobedience | appos |
| 46 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 48 absent | cc |
| 47 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 48 absent | cop |
| 48 | absent | absent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 relations | conj |
| 49 | from | from | ADP | _ | 50 home | case |
| 50 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 absent | obl |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past | a investigation by the Guardian newspaper in 2025 | the Dar al | however property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent al=Topic | |||
| 2 | continue | participle | for women | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is | to-infinitive | jails appos; effectively property | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | wish | past | families | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | institutionalize not said to happen | to-infinitive | families not said here | Women = woman | for disobedience | vn confine-92 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | |||
| 6 | is | gerund | families not said here | home | absent property | tree rules | |||
| 7 | investigate | the Guardian newspaper in 2025 | nom investigation «cognition transitive»: by=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.
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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