Saudi Arabia, sentence 382
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 maintains a list of sectors in which foreign investment is prohibited, but the government plans to open some closed sectors such as telecommunications, insurance, and power transmission/distribution over time.
Who acts: Saudi Arabia, government · What happens: maintain, prohibit, plan, open, close, list · To what, where: list, foreign investment, sectors, closed sectors
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, government), 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 | 3 maintains | nsubj |
| 3 | maintains | maintain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 list | det |
| 5 | list | list | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 maintains | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 sectors | case |
| 7 | sectors | sector | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 list | nmod |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 which | case |
| 9 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 prohibited | obl |
| 10 | foreign | foreign | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 investment | amod |
| 11 | investment | investment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 prohibited | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 prohibited | aux:pass |
| 13 | prohibited | prohibit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 sectors | acl:relcl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 plans | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 plans | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 government | det |
| 17 | government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 plans | nsubj |
| 18 | plans | plan | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 maintains | conj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 open | mark |
| 20 | open | open | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 plans | xcomp |
| 21 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 23 sectors | det |
| 22 | closed | close | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 sectors | amod |
| 23 | sectors | sector | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 open | obj |
| 24 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 26 telecommunications | case |
| 25 | as | as | ADP | _ | 24 such | fixed |
| 26 | telecommunications | telecommunication | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 sectors | nmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 insurance | punct |
| 28 | insurance | insurance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 telecommunications | conj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 transmission/distribution | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 transmission/distribution | cc |
| 31 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 transmission/distribution | compound |
| 32 | transmission/distribution | transmission/distribution | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 maintains | obl |
| 33 | over | over | ADP | _ | 34 time | case |
| 34 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 transmission/distribution | nmod |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 maintains | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | maintain | present | Saudi Arabia | a list of sectors | power transmission/distribution over time obl | vn declare-29.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent list=Theme | |||
| 2 | prohibit | present · passive | foreign investment | sectors | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | plan | present | the government | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | open not said to happen | to-infinitive | the government not said here | some closed sectors | such telecommunications and insurance | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location sector=Theme | |||
| 5 | close | participle | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 6 | list | sectors | nom list «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.
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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