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title: Although male-only municipal elections were held in 2011, Abdullah a… — Saudi Arabia · tree and pragmatics
description: Although male-only municipal elections were held in 2011, Abdullah allowed women to vote and be elected in the 2015 municipal elections, and also to be nominated to the Shura Council. Who acts: Abdullah. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Saudi Arabia» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Saudi Arabia, sentence 179

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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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Although male-only municipal elections were held in 2011, Abdullah allowed women to vote and be elected in the 2015 municipal elections, and also to be nominated to the Shura Council.

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**Who acts:** Abdullah · **What happens:** hold, allow, vote, elect, nominate · **To what, where:** male municipal elections, 2011, women, 2015 municipal elections

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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 (Abdullah), 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:179
# text = Although male-only municipal elections were held in 2011, Abdullah allowed women to vote and be elected in the 2015 municipal elections, and also to be nominated to the Shura Council.
1	Although	although	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
2	male	male	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	only	only	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
5	municipal	municipal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	elections	election	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
7	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	held	hold	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	advcl	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	2011	2011	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
12	Abdullah	Abdullah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	allowed	allow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	iobj	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	vote	vote	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	aux:pass	_	_
19	elected	elect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	conj	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
22	2015	2015	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	24	nummod	_	_
23	municipal	municipal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	elections	election	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
27	also	also	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
29	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	aux:pass	_	_
30	nominated	nominate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	conj	_	_
31	to	to	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	Shura	Shura	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	_
34	Council	Council	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hold** | past · passive |  | male municipal elections |  | 2011 |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme in 2011=Location |
| 2 | **allow** | past | Abdullah |  | women |  |  |  | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer woman=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **vote** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Abdullah *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **elect** | infinitive · passive | Abdullah *not said here* |  |  | the 2015 municipal elections |  |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP» |
| 5 | **nominate** | to-infinitive · passive | Abdullah *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to the Shura Council | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: to council=Attribute |

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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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