--- title: The extent of corruption has been described as systemic and endemic,… — Saudi Arabia · tree and pragmatics description: The extent of corruption has been described as systemic and endemic, and its existence was acknowledged and defended by Prince Bandar bin Sultan (a senior member of the royal family) in an interview in 2001. Who acts: extent. 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The extent of corruption has been described as systemic and endemic, and its existence was acknowledged and defended by Prince Bandar bin Sultan (a senior member of the royal family) in an interview in 2001. **Who acts:** extent · **What happens:** describe, acknowledge, defend, extend, exist · **To what, where:** extent, existence, interview, corruption 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 (extent), 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:248 # text = The extent of corruption has been described as systemic and endemic, and its existence was acknowledged and defended by Prince Bandar bin Sultan (a senior member of the royal family) in an interview in 2001. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 extent extent NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj:pass _ _ 3 of of ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 corruption corruption NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 6 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 7 aux:pass _ _ 7 described describe VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 8 as as ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 systemic systemic ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 obl _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 endemic endemic NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 14 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 15 existence existence NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj:pass _ _ 16 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 aux:pass _ _ 17 acknowledged acknowledge VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 conj _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 defended defend VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 17 conj _ _ 20 by by ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 Prince Prince PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 nmod:desc _ _ 22 Bandar Bandar PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 obl:agent _ _ 23 bin Bin PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 flat _ _ 24 Sultan Sultan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 flat _ _ 25 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 28 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 27 senior senior ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 member member NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 appos _ _ 29 of of ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 31 royal royal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 family family NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 33 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 28 punct _ _ 34 in in ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 interview interview NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 37 in in ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 38 2001 2001 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 36 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 39 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **describe** | present · perfect · passive | | the extent of corruption | | | | as systemic and endemic | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: subject=Theme as systemic=Attribute | | 2 | **acknowledge** | past · passive | | extent's existence | | | | | vn confess-37.10 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | | 3 | **defend** | participle | | | | a interview in 2001 | | Bandar Prince *obl:agent* | vn defend-72.3 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **extend** | | | corruption | | | | | nom extent «state transitive»: of=patient | | 5 | **exist** | | extent | | | | | | nom existence «state intransitive»: poss=agent | 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 247](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Saudi_Arabia/247/) - next →: [sentence 249](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Saudi_Arabia/249/) - ↑ back to [Saudi Arabia](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Saudi_Arabia/)