Saudi Arabia, sentence 494
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.
David Weinberg, director of international affairs for the Anti-Defamation League, said that references to demonizing Jews, Christians, and Shiites have been removed from some places or have toned down.
Who acts: David · What happens: say, reference, demonize, remove, tone down · To what, where: Jews, Shiites, places · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (David), 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 | David | David | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 said | nsubj |
| 2 | Weinberg | Weinberg | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 David | flat |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 director | punct |
| 4 | director | director | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 David | appos |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 affairs | case |
| 6 | international | international | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 affairs | amod |
| 7 | affairs | affair | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 director | nmod |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 League | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 League | det |
| 10 | Anti-Defamation | Anti-Defamation | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 League | compound |
| 11 | League | League | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 affairs | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 David | punct |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 references | mark |
| 15 | references | reference | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 said | ccomp |
| 16 | to | to | SCONJ | _ | 17 demonizing | mark |
| 17 | demonizing | demonize | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 references | advcl |
| 18 | Jews | Jew | PROPN | Number=Plur | 17 demonizing | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 Christians | punct |
| 20 | Christians | Christian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 18 Jews | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 removed | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 removed | cc |
| 23 | Shiites | Shiite | PROPN | Number=Plur | 26 removed | nsubj:pass |
| 24 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 removed | aux |
| 25 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 26 removed | aux:pass |
| 26 | removed | remove | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 said | conj |
| 27 | from | from | ADP | _ | 29 places | case |
| 28 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 29 places | det |
| 29 | places | place | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 removed | obl |
| 30 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 32 toned | cc |
| 31 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 toned | aux |
| 32 | toned | tone | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 removed | conj |
| 33 | down | down | ADP | _ | 32 toned | compound:prt |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | David | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | reference | present | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | demonize | gerund | Jews and Christians | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | remove | present · perfect · passive | Shiites | some places | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme from place=Source | ||||
| 5 | tone down | present · perfect | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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.
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