--- title: Located in the centre of the Middle East, it covers the bulk of the… — Saudi Arabia · tree and pragmatics description: Located in the centre of the Middle East, it covers the bulk of the Arabian Peninsula and has a land area of about 2150000 km2, making it the fifth-largest country in Asia, the largest in the Middle East, and the twelfth-largest in the world. Who acts: East. 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Located in the centre of the Middle East, it covers the bulk of the Arabian Peninsula and has a land area of about 2150000 km2, making it the fifth-largest country in Asia, the largest in the Middle East, and the twelfth-largest in the world. **Who acts:** East · **What happens:** locate, cover, have, make · **To what, where:** centre, bulk, land area, area 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 (East), 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:2 # text = Located in the centre of the Middle East, it covers the bulk of the Arabian Peninsula and has a land area of about 2150000 km2, making it the fifth-largest country in Asia, the largest in the Middle East, and the twelfth-largest in the world. 1 Located locate VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 11 advcl _ _ 2 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 centre centre NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 Middle Middle PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 East East PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 11 covers cover VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 bulk bulk NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 14 of of ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 Arabian Arabian ADJ NNP Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 Peninsula Peninsula PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 nmod _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 land land NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 compound _ _ 22 area area NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 23 of of ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 about about ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 25 2150000 2150000 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 22 nmod _ _ 26 km2 km2 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 25 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 28 making make VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 11 advcl _ _ 29 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 obj _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 31 fifth fifth ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 32 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 33 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 33 largest large ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 34 amod _ _ 34 country country NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 xcomp _ _ 35 in in ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 Asia Asia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 34 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 largest large ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 34 conj _ _ 40 in in ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 42 Middle Middle PROPN NNP Number=Sing 43 compound _ _ 43 East East PROPN NNP Number=Sing 39 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 44 , , PUNCT , _ 49 punct _ _ 45 and and CCONJ CC _ 49 cc _ _ 46 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 49 det _ _ 47 twelfth twelfth ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 49 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 48 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 49 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 49 largest large ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 39 conj _ _ 50 in in ADP IN _ 52 case _ _ 51 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 52 det _ _ 52 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 49 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 53 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **locate** | participle | East *not said here* | | | the centre of the Middle East | | | tree rules | | 2 | **cover** | present | East | the bulk of the Arabian Peninsula | | | | | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme bulk=Destination | | 3 | **have** | present | East *not said here* | a land area of 2150000 | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent area=Patient | | 4 | **make** | gerund | East *not said here* | area | | | | the fifth largest country in Asia *xcomp* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product | 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 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Saudi_Arabia/1/) - next →: [sentence 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Saudi_Arabia/3/) - ↑ back to [Saudi Arabia](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Saudi_Arabia/)