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title: In the large empty area where the old airport once was, the world's… — Riyadh · tree and pragmatics
description: In the large empty area where the old airport once was, the world's largest urban park, King Salman Park, is being constructed, with leisure, residential, office, hospitality, and retail spaces. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Riyadh» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Riyadh, sentence 138

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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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In the large empty area where the old airport once was, the world's largest urban park, King Salman Park, is being constructed, with leisure, residential, office, hospitality, and retail spaces.

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**What happens:** be, construct · **To what, where:** largest urban park, old airport, large empty area

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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: 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:138
# text = In the large empty area where the old airport once was, the world's largest urban park, King Salman Park, is being constructed, with leisure, residential, office, hospitality, and retail spaces.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	empty	empty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	area	area	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	26	advmod	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	airport	airport	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	18	advmod	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	's	's	PART	POS	_	14	case	_	_
16	largest	large	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	18	amod	_	_
17	urban	urban	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	park	park	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	appos	_	_
21	Salman	Salman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	flat	_	_
22	Park	Park	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
24	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux:pass	_	_
25	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	26	aux:pass	_	_
26	constructed	construct	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	with	with	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	leisure	leisure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
31	residential	residential	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
33	office	office	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
35	hospitality	hospitality	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
38	retail	retail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	compound	_	_
39	spaces	space	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | the world's largest urban park |  |  |  | the world *nmod:poss*; King *appos*; once *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **construct** | present · passive |  | the old airport |  |  |  | with leisure; retail spaces *obl* | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with leisure=Instrument |

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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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