--- title: In 1974, the government founded the High Commission for the Developm… — Riyadh · tree and pragmatics description: In 1974, the government founded the High Commission for the Development of Arriyadh (later Royal Commission for Riyadh City) which was headed by the then governor of Riyadh Province, King Salman Bin Abdulaziz, who oversaw Riyadh's development. Who acts: government, governor, King Salman, Riyadh. 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In 1974, the government founded the High Commission for the Development of Arriyadh (later Royal Commission for Riyadh City) which was headed by the then governor of Riyadh Province, King Salman Bin Abdulaziz, who oversaw Riyadh's development. **Who acts:** government, governor, King Salman, Riyadh · **What happens:** found, head, oversee, develop · **To what, where:** High Commission, 1974, development 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 (government, governor, King Salman, Riyadh), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = wikipedia:Riyadh:108 # text = In 1974, the government founded the High Commission for the Development of Arriyadh (later Royal Commission for Riyadh City) which was headed by the then governor of Riyadh Province, King Salman Bin Abdulaziz, who oversaw Riyadh's development. 1 In in ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 1974 1974 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 6 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 government government NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 6 founded found VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 High high ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 Commission commission NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 10 for for ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 Development Development PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 nmod _ _ 13 of of ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 Arriyadh Arriyadh PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 nmod _ _ 15 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 18 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 16 later late ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 18 advmod _ _ 17 Royal Royal ADJ NNP Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 Commission Commission PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 appos _ _ 19 for for ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 Riyadh Riyadh PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 compound _ _ 21 City City PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 22 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 18 punct _ _ 23 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 25 nsubj _ _ 24 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 aux:pass _ _ 25 headed head VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 acl:relcl _ _ 26 by by ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 28 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 29 advmod _ _ 29 governor governor NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 30 of of ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 Riyadh Riyadh PROPN NNP Number=Sing 32 compound _ _ 32 Province Province PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 34 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 35 compound _ _ 35 Salman Salman PROPN NNP Number=Sing 32 conj _ _ 36 Bin Bin PROPN NNP Number=Sing 35 flat _ _ 37 Abdulaziz Abdulaziz PROPN NNP Number=Sing 35 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 38 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 39 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 40 nsubj _ _ 40 oversaw oversee VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 35 acl:relcl _ _ 41 Riyadh Riyadh PROPN NNP Number=Sing 43 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 42 's 's PART POS _ 41 case _ _ 43 development development NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **found** | past | the government | the High Commission | | 1974 | | for the Development of Arriyadh | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent commission=Patient | | 2 | **head** | past · passive | the governor of Riyadh Province and King Salman | the High Commission | | | | | vn conduct-111.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | | 3 | **oversee** | past | King Salman | Riyadh's development | | | | | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.predicate»: agent=Agent development=Eventuality | | 4 | **develop** | | Riyadh | | | | | | nom development «act transitive»: poss=agent | 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, «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. - ← previous: [sentence 107](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Riyadh/107/) - next →: [sentence 109](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Riyadh/109/) - ↑ back to [Riyadh](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Riyadh/)