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title: While keeping the 2km x 2km block, they expanded it in all direction… — Riyadh · tree and pragmatics
description: While keeping the 2km x 2km block, they expanded it in all directions unlike DA's linear expansion. Who acts: plans, DA. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Riyadh» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Riyadh, sentence 114

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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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While keeping the 2km x 2km block, they expanded it in all directions unlike DA's linear expansion.

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**Who acts:** plans, DA · **What happens:** keep, expand · **To what, where:** 2 km, km, directions

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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 (plans, DA), 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:114
# text = While keeping the 2km x 2km block, they expanded it in all directions unlike DA's linear expansion.
1	While	while	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	keeping	keep	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	2	2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	km	km	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	x	x	SYM	SYM	ExtPos=ADP	9	case	_	_
7	2	2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	km	km	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	block	block	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
11	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	expanded	expand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	16	det	_	_
16	directions	direction	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
17	unlike	unlike	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
18	DA	DA	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	's	's	PART	POS	_	18	case	_	_
20	linear	linear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	expansion	expansion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | gerund | plans *= plan* *not said here* | the 2 km |  |  |  | x km block | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent km=Theme |
| 2 | **expand** | past | plans *= plan* | km |  | all directions unlike DA's linear expansion |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 3 | **expand** |  | DA |  |  |  |  |  | nom expansion «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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