Saudi Arabia, sentence 64
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 nomadic Midianites were one of the earliest exploiters of the domestication of camels that enabled them to navigate through the harsh terrains of the region.
Who acts: nomadic Midianites, domestication, Midianites · What happens: be, enable, navigate · To what, where: one, Midianites, harsh terrains
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 (nomadic Midianites, domestication, Midianites), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Midianites | det |
| 2 | nomadic | nomadic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Midianites | amod |
| 3 | Midianites | Midianite | PROPN | Number=Plur | 5 one | nsubj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 one | cop |
| 5 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 exploiters | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 exploiters | det |
| 8 | earliest | early | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 9 exploiters | amod |
| 9 | exploiters | exploiter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 one | nmod |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 domestication | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 domestication | det |
| 12 | domestication | domestication | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 exploiters | nmod |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 camels | case |
| 14 | camels | camel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 domestication | nmod |
| 15 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 enabled | nsubj |
| 16 | enabled | enable | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 domestication | acl:relcl |
| 17 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 enabled | obj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 navigate | mark |
| 19 | navigate | navigate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 enabled | xcomp |
| 20 | through | through | ADP | _ | 23 terrains | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 terrains | det |
| 22 | harsh | harsh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 terrains | amod |
| 23 | terrains | terrain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 navigate | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 region | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 region | det |
| 26 | region | region | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 terrains | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 one | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the nomadic Midianites | one | of the earliest exploiters of the domestication of camels | tree rules | |||
| 2 | enable | past | the domestication of camels | Midianites = midianite | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | navigate | to-infinitive | Midianites = midianite not said here | the harsh terrains of the region | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent through terrain=Trajectory |
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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