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description: Participation in the political process is limited to a relatively small segment of the population and takes the form of the royal family consulting with the ulema, tribal sheikhs, and business elite on major decisions. Who acts: royal family. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Saudi Arabia» with its depende
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# Saudi Arabia, sentence 226

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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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Participation in the political process is limited to a relatively small segment of the population and takes the form of the royal family consulting with the ulema, tribal sheikhs, and business elite on major decisions.

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**Who acts:** royal family · **What happens:** limit, take, consult, form · **To what, where:** Participation, small segment, form, royal family

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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 (royal family), 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:226
# text = Participation in the political process is limited to a relatively small segment of the population and takes the form of the royal family consulting with the ulema, tribal sheikhs, and business elite on major decisions.
1	Participation	participation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	political	political	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	process	process	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	limited	limit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	relatively	relatively	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	segment	segment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	population	population	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	takes	take	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	form	form	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	royal	royal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
24	consulting	consult	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	23	acl	_	_
25	with	with	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	ulema	ulema	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	tribal	tribal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	sheikhs	sheikh	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
33	business	business	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	_
34	elite	elite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
35	on	on	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	major	major	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	decisions	decision	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **limit** | present · passive |  | Participation in the political process |  |  |  | to a small segment of the population *goal* | vn limit-76 «NP V NP S\_ING»: subject=Patient to segment=Goal |
| 2 | **take** | present |  | the form of the royal family |  |  |  | business elite on major decisions *obl* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent form=Theme |
| 3 | **consult** | gerund | the royal family *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with the ulema and tribal sheikhs | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with ulema=Co-Agent |
| 4 | **form** |  |  | the royal family |  |  |  |  | nom form «communication 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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