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title: They proposed that Riyadh will expand in the north-south axis along… — Riyadh · tree and pragmatics
description: They proposed that Riyadh will expand in the north-south axis along a commercial spine with and most importantly, that it will be divided into neighborhoods of 2 × 2 km blocks, thus solidifying the grid pattern to be the defining feature of Riyadh's layout. Who acts: departments, Riyadh. A sentence 
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# Riyadh, sentence 103

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From Wikipedia, [«Riyadh»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riyadh), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.

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They proposed that Riyadh will expand in the north-south axis along a commercial spine with and most importantly, that it will be divided into neighborhoods of 2 × 2 km blocks, thus solidifying the grid pattern to be the defining feature of Riyadh's layout.

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**Who acts:** departments, Riyadh · **What happens:** propose, expand, divide, solidify, be · **To what, where:** south axis, spine, neighborhoods, grid pattern, defining feature

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Riyadh». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (departments, Riyadh), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = wikipedia:Riyadh:103
# text = They proposed that Riyadh will expand in the north-south axis along a commercial spine with and most importantly, that it will be divided into neighborhoods of 2 × 2 km blocks, thus solidifying the grid pattern to be the defining feature of Riyadh's layout.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	proposed	propose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
4	Riyadh	Riyadh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	expand	expand	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	ccomp	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
9	north	north	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	south	South	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	axis	axis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
13	along	along	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	commercial	commercial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	spine	spine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	20	advmod	_	_
20	importantly	importantly	ADV	RB	_	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
22	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj:pass	_	_
24	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
25	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	aux:pass	_	_
26	divided	divide	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
27	into	into	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	neighborhoods	neighborhood	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
30	2	2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	34	nummod	_	_
31	×	×	SYM	SYM	_	32	case	_	_
32	2	2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	30	nmod	_	_
33	km	km	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	_
34	blocks	block	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
36	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
37	solidifying	solidify	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	26	advcl	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
39	grid	grid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	compound	_	_
40	pattern	pattern	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obj	_	_
41	to	to	PART	TO	_	45	mark	_	_
42	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	45	cop	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
44	defining	defining	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	amod	_	_
45	feature	feature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	advcl	_	_
46	of	of	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
47	Riyadh	Riyadh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	49	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	's	's	PART	POS	_	47	case	_	_
49	layout	layout	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **propose** | past | departments *= department* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **expand** | future | Riyadh |  |  | the south axis |  | along a commercial spine | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with importantly=Instrument |
| 3 | **divide** | future · passive |  | spine |  | neighborhoods of 2 km blocks |  |  | vn multiply-108-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 4 | **solidify** | gerund |  | the grid pattern |  |  |  | thus *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent pattern=Patient |
| 5 | **is a** | to-infinitive |  | the defining feature |  |  |  | of Riyadh's layout | tree rules |

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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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**Text:** the English Wikipedia, «Riyadh», 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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