--- title: The king has usually been also the prime minister, with two exceptio… — Saudi Arabia · tree and pragmatics description: The king has usually been also the prime minister, with two exceptions: Crown Prince Faisal, who was prime minister during the reign of King Saud, and Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman, the current prime minister since 2022. Who acts: king, Faisal. 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The king has usually been also the prime minister, with two exceptions: Crown Prince Faisal, who was prime minister during the reign of King Saud, and Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman, the current prime minister since 2022. **Who acts:** king, Faisal · **What happens:** have, be · **To what, where:** prime minister 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 (king, Faisal), 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:241 # text = The king has usually been also the prime minister, with two exceptions: Crown Prince Faisal, who was prime minister during the reign of King Saud, and Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman, the current prime minister since 2022. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 usually usually ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 5 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 9 cop _ _ 6 also also ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 prime prime ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 minister minister NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 11 with with ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 13 nummod _ _ 13 exceptions exception NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 14 : : PUNCT : _ 17 punct _ _ 15 Crown Crown PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 compound _ _ 16 Prince Prince PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 nmod:desc _ _ 17 Faisal Faisal PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 19 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 22 nsubj _ _ 20 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 cop _ _ 21 prime prime ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 minister minister NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 appos _ _ 23 during during ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 reign reign NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nmod _ _ 26 of of ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 nmod _ _ 28 Saud Saud PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 31 Crown Crown PROPN NNP Number=Sing 32 compound _ _ 32 Prince Prince PROPN NNP Number=Sing 33 nmod:desc _ _ 33 Mohammed Mohammed PROPN NNP Number=Sing 35 compound _ _ 34 Bin Bin PROPN NNP Number=Sing 33 flat _ _ 35 Salman Salman PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 38 current current ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 amod _ _ 39 prime prime ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 amod _ _ 40 minister minister NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 appos _ _ 41 since since ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 42 2022 2022 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 40 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | present | the king | | | | | two exceptions Faisal Crown Prince and Mohammed Salman *conj* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is a** | participle | | the prime minister | | | | usually *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **is a** | past | Faisal Crown Prince and Mohammed Salman | prime minister | | | during the reign of King | | tree rules | 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 240](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Saudi_Arabia/240/) - next →: [sentence 242](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Saudi_Arabia/242/) - ↑ back to [Saudi Arabia](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Saudi_Arabia/)