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title: The town was the administrative center of the government until 1938,… — Riyadh · tree and pragmatics
description: The town was the administrative center of the government until 1938, when Ibn Saud moved to the Murabba Palace. Who acts: town, Ibn. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Riyadh» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Riyadh, sentence 15

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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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The town was the administrative center of the government until 1938, when Ibn Saud moved to the Murabba Palace.

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**Who acts:** town, Ibn · **What happens:** be, move · **To what, where:** administrative center

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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 (town, 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:15
# text = The town was the administrative center of the government until 1938, when Ibn Saud moved to the Murabba Palace.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	administrative	administrative	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	center	center	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	until	until	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	1938	1938	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	16	advmod	_	_
14	Ibn	Ibn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
15	Saud	Saud	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	flat	_	_
16	moved	move	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	Murabba	Murabba	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	Palace	Palace	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 town | the administrative center |  |  | until 1938 | of the government | tree rules |
| 2 | **move** | past | Ibn |  |  |  |  | to the Murabba Palace *result* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to palace=Result |

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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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