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Saudi Arabia, sentence 59

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.

The capital of Midian was Qurayyah, it consists of a large, fortified citadel encompassing 35 hectares and below it lies a walled settlement of 15 hectares.

Who acts: capital, settlement, large fortified citadel · What happens: be, consist, encompass, lie, wall · To what, where: Qurayyah, 35 hectares, walled settlement, settlement

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 (capital, settlement, large fortified citadel), 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

detnsubjcasenmodcoppunctnsubjacl:relclcasedetamodpunctamodoblaclnummodobjcccaseoblconjdetamodobjcasenummodnmodpunctrootTheDETcapitalNOUNofADPMidianPROPNwasAUXQurayyahPROPN,PUNCTitPRONconsistsVERBofADPaDETlargeADJ,PUNCTfortifiedADJcitadelNOUNencompassingVERB35NUMhectaresNOUNandCCONJbelowADPitPRONliesVERBaDETwalledVERBsettlementNOUNofADP15NUMhectaresNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ThetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art2 capitaldet
2capitalcapitalNOUNNumber=Sing6 Qurayyahnsubj
3ofofADP_4 Midiancase
4MidianMidianPROPNNumber=Sing2 capitalnmod
5wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin6 Qurayyahcop
6QurayyahQurayyahPROPNNumber=Singrootroot
7,,PUNCT_9 consistspunct
8ititPRONCase=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs9 consistsnsubj
9consistsconsistVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin6 Qurayyahacl:relcl
10ofofADP_15 citadelcase
11aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art15 citadeldet
12largelargeADJDegree=Pos15 citadelamod
13,,PUNCT_12 largepunct
14fortifiedfortifiedADJDegree=Pos15 citadelamod
15citadelcitadelNOUNNumber=Sing9 consistsobl
16encompassingencompassVERBVerbForm=Ger15 citadelacl
173535NUMNumForm=Digit NumType=Card18 hectaresnummod
18hectareshectareNOUNNumber=Plur16 encompassingobj
19andandCCONJ_22 liescc
20belowbelowADP_21 itcase
21ititPRONCase=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs22 liesobl
22lieslieVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin16 encompassingconj
23aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art25 settlementdet
24walledwallVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass25 settlementamod
25settlementsettlementNOUNNumber=Sing22 liesobj
26ofofADP_28 hectarescase
271515NUMNumForm=Digit NumType=Card28 hectaresnummod
28hectareshectareNOUNNumber=Plur25 settlementnmod
29..PUNCT_6 Qurayyahpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1is apastthe capital of MidianQurayyahtree rules
2consistpresentsettlementQurayyah not said hereof a large fortified citadeltree rules
3encompassgerunda large fortified citadel not said here35 hectaresvn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot hectare=Theme
4liepresenta large fortified citadel not said herea walled settlement of 15 hectaressettlementvn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location settlement=Theme
5wallparticipletree rules

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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