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title: Fahd continued to develop close relations with the United States and… — Saudi Arabia · tree and pragmatics
description: Fahd continued to develop close relations with the United States and increased the purchase of American and British military equipment. Who acts: Fahd. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Saudi Arabia» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Saudi Arabia, sentence 146

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From Wikipedia, [«Saudi Arabia»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saudi_Arabia), 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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Fahd continued to develop close relations with the United States and increased the purchase of American and British military equipment.

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**Who acts:** Fahd · **What happens:** continue, develop, increase, purchase · **To what, where:** close relations, purchase, American military equipment

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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 (Fahd), 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:Saudi_Arabia:146
# text = Fahd continued to develop close relations with the United States and increased the purchase of American and British military equipment.
1	Fahd	Fahd	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	continued	continue	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	develop	develop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
5	close	close	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	relations	relation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	United	United	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	States	State	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	increased	increase	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	purchase	purchase	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
16	American	American	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	British	British	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	conj	_	_
19	military	military	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	equipment	equipment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **continue** | past | Fahd |  |  |  |  |  | vn continue-55.3 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **develop** | to-infinitive | Fahd *not said here* | close relations |  |  |  | with the United States | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent relation=Product |
| 3 | **increase** | past | Fahd *not said here* | the purchase of American military equipment |  |  |  |  | vn caused\_calibratable\_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Causer purchase=Patient |
| 4 | **purchase** |  |  | American military equipment |  |  |  |  | nom purchase «act 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, «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.

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