--- title: In 1938, vast reserves of oil were discovered in the Al-Ahsa region… — Saudi Arabia · tree and pragmatics description: In 1938, vast reserves of oil were discovered in the Al-Ahsa region along the coast of the Persian Gulf, and full-scale development of the oil fields began in 1941 under the US-controlled Aramco (Arabian American Oil Company). Who acts: scale development. 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In 1938, vast reserves of oil were discovered in the Al-Ahsa region along the coast of the Persian Gulf, and full-scale development of the oil fields began in 1941 under the US-controlled Aramco (Arabian American Oil Company). **Who acts:** scale development · **What happens:** discover, begin, control, develop · **To what, where:** vast reserves, 1938, 1941, oil fields This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Saudi Arabia». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (scale development), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:Saudi_Arabia:122 # text = In 1938, vast reserves of oil were discovered in the Al-Ahsa region along the coast of the Persian Gulf, and full-scale development of the oil fields began in 1941 under the US-controlled Aramco (Arabian American Oil Company). 1 In in ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 1938 1938 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 9 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 vast vast ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 reserves reserve NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nsubj:pass _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 oil oil NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 8 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 aux:pass _ _ 9 discovered discover VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 10 in in ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 12 Al Al PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 13 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 12 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 14 Ahsa Ahsa PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 compound _ _ 15 region region NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 16 along along ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 coast coast NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 19 of of ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 Persian Persian PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 compound _ _ 22 Gulf Gulf PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 25 full full ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 26 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 25 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 27 scale scale NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 compound _ _ 28 development development NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nsubj _ _ 29 of of ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 31 oil oil NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 compound _ _ 32 fields field NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 nmod _ _ 33 began begin VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 parataxis _ _ 34 in in ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 1941 1941 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 33 obl _ _ 36 under under ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 38 US US PROPN NNP Number=Sing 40 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 39 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 38 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 40 controlled control VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 41 amod _ _ 41 Aramco Aramco PROPN NNP Number=Sing 33 obl _ _ 42 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 46 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 43 Arabian Arabian ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 46 amod _ _ 44 American American ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 46 amod _ _ 45 Oil Oil PROPN NNP Number=Sing 46 compound _ _ 46 Company Company PROPN NNP Number=Sing 41 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 47 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 46 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 48 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **discover** | past · passive | | vast reserves of oil | | 1938 | | in the Ahsa region; along the coast of the Persian Gulf | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | | 2 | **begin** | past | scale development of the oil fields | | | 1941 | | under the controlled Aramco | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 3 | **control** | participle | | | | | | US *compound* | vn enforce-63 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **develop** | | | the oil fields | | | | | nom development «act transitive»: of=patient | 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. **Text:** the English Wikipedia, «Saudi Arabia», 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. - ← previous: [sentence 121](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Saudi_Arabia/121/) - next →: [sentence 123](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Saudi_Arabia/123/) - ↑ back to [Saudi Arabia](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Saudi_Arabia/)