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title: According to Dr. Saleh Al Hathloul, former deputy minister of town p… — Riyadh · tree and pragmatics
description: According to Dr. Saleh Al Hathloul, former deputy minister of town planning, this era coincided with the period of sedentarization as nomads settled in and around towns and cities such as Riyadh. Who acts: era. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Riyadh» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Riyadh, sentence 94

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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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According to Dr. Saleh Al Hathloul, former deputy minister of town planning, this era coincided with the period of sedentarization as nomads settled in and around towns and cities such as Riyadh.

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**Who acts:** era · **What happens:** accord, coincide, settle · **To what, where:** era, towns

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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 (era), 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:94
# text = According to Dr. Saleh Al Hathloul, former deputy minister of town planning, this era coincided with the period of sedentarization as nomads settled in and around towns and cities such as Riyadh.
1	According	accord	VERB	VBG	ExtPos=ADP|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	case	_	_
2	to	to	ADP	IN	_	1	fixed	_	_
3	Dr.	Dr.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:desc	_	_
4	Saleh	Saleh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
5	Al	Al	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	flat	_	_
6	Hathloul	Hathloul	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	former	former	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	deputy	deputy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	minister	minister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	planning	planning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	16	det	_	_
16	era	era	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
17	coincided	coincide	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	acl	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	period	period	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	sedentarization	sedentarization	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
23	as	as	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	nomads	nomad	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
25	settled	settle	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
26	in	in	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	around	around	ADP	IN	_	26	conj	_	_
29	towns	town	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obj	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	cities	city	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	conj	_	_
32	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	34	case	_	_
33	as	as	ADP	IN	_	32	fixed	_	_
34	Riyadh	Riyadh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	25	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **accord** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **coincide** | participle |  | this era *not said here* |  |  |  | with the period of sedentarization; as nomads | vn amalgamate-22.2-2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Patient with period=Co-Patient |
| 3 | **settle** | past | this era | towns and cities such Riyadh |  |  |  | accord Saleh  Dr. | vn odge-46-1 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme town=Location |

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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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