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title: Finally, in the early 20th century, Ibn Saud retrieved his ancestral… — Riyadh · tree and pragmatics
description: Finally, in the early 20th century, Ibn Saud retrieved his ancestral rule in 1902 with the Emirate of Riyadh and consolidated his rule by 1926 with the final Saudi conquest of Hejaz, subsequently naming his kingdom 'Saudi Arabia' in September 1932 with Riyadh as the capital. Who acts: Ibn. A sentenc
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# Riyadh, sentence 14

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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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Finally, in the early 20th century, Ibn Saud retrieved his ancestral rule in 1902 with the Emirate of Riyadh and consolidated his rule by 1926 with the final Saudi conquest of Hejaz, subsequently naming his kingdom 'Saudi Arabia' in September 1932 with Riyadh as the capital.

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**Who acts:** Ibn · **What happens:** retrieve, consolidate, name, rule · **To what, where:** ancestral rule, 1902, rule, kingdom

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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 (Ibn), 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:14
# text = Finally, in the early 20th century, Ibn Saud retrieved his ancestral rule in 1902 with the Emirate of Riyadh and consolidated his rule by 1926 with the final Saudi conquest of Hejaz, subsequently naming his kingdom 'Saudi Arabia' in September 1932 with Riyadh as the capital.
1	Finally	finally	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	early	early	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	20th	20th	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Ord	7	amod	_	_
7	century	century	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
9	Ibn	Ibn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
10	Saud	Saud	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	flat	_	_
11	retrieved	retrieve	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
13	ancestral	ancestral	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	rule	rule	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	1902	1902	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	obl	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	Emirate	Emirate	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	Riyadh	Riyadh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	consolidated	consolidate	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
24	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	rule	rule	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	by	by	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	1926	1926	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	23	obl	_	_
28	with	with	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
30	final	final	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
31	Saudi	Saudi	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	conquest	conquest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	Hejaz	Hejaz	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
36	subsequently	subsequently	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
37	naming	name	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	23	advcl	_	_
38	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	39	nmod:poss	_	_
39	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obj	_	_
40	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	42	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	Saudi	Saudi	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
42	Arabia	Arabia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	39	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	42	punct	_	_
44	in	in	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
45	September	September	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	_
46	1932	1932	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	45	nmod:unmarked	_	_
47	with	with	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
48	Riyadh	Riyadh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	_
49	as	as	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
50	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
51	capital	capital	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **retrieve** | past | Ibn | Ibn's ancestral rule |  | 1902 | century | with the Emirate of Riyadh; finally *property* | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rule=Theme |
| 2 | **consolidate** | past | Ibn *not said here* | Ibn's rule |  |  |  | by 1926; with the final Saudi conquest of Hejaz | vn amalgamate-22.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent rule=Patient with conquest=Co-Patient |
| 3 | **name** | gerund | Ibn *not said here* | Ibn's kingdom |  |  | september | with Riyadh; as the capital; subsequently *property* | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent kingdom=Theme as capital=Attribute |
| 4 | **rule** |  | Ibn |  |  |  |  |  | nom rule «cognition intransitive»: poss=agent |
| 5 | **rule** |  | Ibn |  |  |  |  |  | nom rule «cognition intransitive»: 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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