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title: The Saudi Cup is perfectly positioned between the Pegasus World Cup… — Riyadh · tree and pragmatics
description: The Saudi Cup is perfectly positioned between the Pegasus World Cup and the Dubai World Cup to attract the best horses from around the world to compete for horse racing's richest prize. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Riyadh» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Riyadh, sentence 354

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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 Saudi Cup is perfectly positioned between the Pegasus World Cup and the Dubai World Cup to attract the best horses from around the world to compete for horse racing's richest prize.

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**What happens:** position, attract, compete · **To what, where:** Saudi Cup, best horses, world

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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: 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:354
# text = The Saudi Cup is perfectly positioned between the Pegasus World Cup and the Dubai World Cup to attract the best horses from around the world to compete for horse racing's richest prize.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Saudi	Saudi	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Cup	cup	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
5	perfectly	perfectly	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	positioned	position	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	between	between	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	Pegasus	Pegasus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
10	World	World	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	Cup	Cup	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
14	Dubai	Dubai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
15	World	World	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	Cup	Cup	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	attract	attract	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	21	amod	_	_
21	horses	horse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	_
22	from	from	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	around	around	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	compete	compete	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	advcl	_	_
28	for	for	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
29	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	racing	racing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	's	's	PART	POS	_	30	case	_	_
32	richest	rich	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	33	amod	_	_
33	prize	prize	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **position** | present · passive |  | the Saudi Cup |  |  |  | between the Pegasus World Cup and the Dubai World Cup; perfectly *property* | vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme between cup=Destination |
| 2 | **attract** | to-infinitive |  | the best horses |  | the world |  |  | vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Patient |
| 3 | **compete** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | for horse racing's richest prize | vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=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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