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title: On 29 February 2020, the world's richest thoroughbred horse race too… — Riyadh · tree and pragmatics
description: On 29 February 2020, the world's richest thoroughbred horse race took place at the King Abdulaziz Racetrack in Riyadh. Who acts: richest thoroughbred horse race, world. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Riyadh» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Riyadh, sentence 351

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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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On 29 February 2020, the world's richest thoroughbred horse race took place at the King Abdulaziz Racetrack in Riyadh.

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**Who acts:** richest thoroughbred horse race, world · **What happens:** thoroughbr, take, race · **To what, where:** place, Abdulaziz Racetrack

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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 (richest thoroughbred horse race, world), 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:351
# text = On 29 February 2020, the world's richest thoroughbred horse race took place at the King Abdulaziz Racetrack in Riyadh.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	29	29	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	February	February	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
4	2020	2020	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	's	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	richest	rich	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	12	amod	_	_
10	thoroughbred	thoroughbr	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	amod	_	_
11	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	race	race	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
15	at	at	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
17	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	Abdulaziz	Abdulaziz	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	Racetrack	Racetrack	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	Riyadh	Riyadh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **thoroughbr** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **take** | past | the world's richest thoroughbred horse race | place |  | the Abdulaziz Racetrack in Riyadh | february |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent place=Theme at racetrack=Asset |
| 3 | **race** |  | the world |  |  |  |  |  | nom race «event 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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