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title: The city sits at an average elevation of 600 m above sea level, and… — Riyadh · tree and pragmatics
description: The city sits at an average elevation of 600 m above sea level, and receives around 5 million tourists each year, making it the forty-ninth most visited city in the world and the sixth in the Middle East. Who acts: city. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Riyadh» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Riyadh, sentence 5

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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 sits at an average elevation of 600 m above sea level, and receives around 5 million tourists each year, making it the forty-ninth most visited city in the world and the sixth in the Middle East.

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**Who acts:** city · **What happens:** sit, receive, make, visit, elevate · **To what, where:** average elevation, million tourists, city, 600 m

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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), 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:5
# text = The city sits at an average elevation of 600 m above sea level, and receives around 5 million tourists each year, making it the forty-ninth most visited city in the world and the sixth in the Middle East.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	sits	sit	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	average	average	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	elevation	elevation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	600	600	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	m	m	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
11	above	above	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	level	level	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	receives	receive	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
17	around	around	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
18	5	5	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	19	compound	_	_
19	million	million	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	20	nummod	_	_
20	tourists	tourist	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
21	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	22	det	_	_
22	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	making	make	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	advcl	_	_
25	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
27	forty	forty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	29	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	ninth	ninth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
30	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	31	advmod	_	_
31	visited	visit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	32	amod	_	_
32	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
33	in	in	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	sixth	sixth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	conj	_	_
39	in	in	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
41	Middle	Middle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	42	compound	_	_
42	East	East	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit** | present | the city |  |  | a average elevation of 600 m above sea level |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at elevation=Location |
| 2 | **receive** | present | the city *not said here* | million tourists |  |  | year |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tourist=Theme |
| 3 | **make** | gerund | the city *not said here* | city |  |  |  | the ninth visited city and the sixth in the Middle East *obj* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset it=Beneficiary city=Product |
| 4 | **visit** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **elevate** |  |  | 600 m above sea level |  |  |  |  | nom elevation «event transitive»: of=patient |

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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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