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title: The project cost 2 billion Saudi Arabian Riyals and the contract was… — Riyadh · tree and pragmatics
description: The project cost 2 billion Saudi Arabian Riyals and the contract was undertaken by El-Seif. Who acts: El. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Riyadh» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Riyadh, sentence 310

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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 project cost 2 billion Saudi Arabian Riyals and the contract was undertaken by El-Seif.

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**Who acts:** El · **What happens:** undertake · **To what, where:** project cost

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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 (El), 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:310
# text = The project cost 2 billion Saudi Arabian Riyals and the contract was undertaken by El-Seif.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	project	project	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	cost	cost	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	2	2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	compound	_	_
5	billion	billion	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
6	Saudi	Saudi	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	Arabian	Arabian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	Riyals	riyal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	contract	contract	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	undertaken	undertake	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
14	by	by	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	El	El	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	Seif	Seif	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **undertake** | past · passive | El and Seif | the project cost  billion Saudi Arabian Riyals and the contract |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Eventuality |

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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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