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title: The city hosts four major football clubs, Al-Hilal was established i… — Riyadh · tree and pragmatics
description: The city hosts four major football clubs, Al-Hilal was established in 1957 and has won 19 championships in the Saudi Pro League. Who acts: city, four major football clubs. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Riyadh» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Riyadh, sentence 341

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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 city hosts four major football clubs, Al-Hilal was established in 1957 and has won 19 championships in the Saudi Pro League.

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**Who acts:** city, four major football clubs · **What happens:** host, establish, win · **To what, where:** four major football clubs, Al, 1957, 19 championships

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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 (city, four major football clubs), 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:341
# text = The city hosts four major football clubs, Al-Hilal was established in 1957 and has won 19 championships in the Saudi Pro League.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	hosts	host	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
5	major	major	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	football	football	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	clubs	club	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	Al	Al	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	Hilal	Hilal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	flat	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	established	establish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl:relcl	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	1957	1957	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	13	obl	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	won	win	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
19	19	19	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	20	nummod	_	_
20	championships	championship	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
23	Saudi	Saudi	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
24	Pro	Pro	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	League	League	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **host** | present | the city | four major football clubs |  |  |  |  | vn captain-29.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent club=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **establish** | past · passive | four major football clubs *not said here* | Al |  | 1957 |  |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 3 | **win** | present · perfect | the city *not said here* | 19 championships |  |  |  | in the Saudi Pro League | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent championship=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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