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title: The preferred ulema are of the Salafi movement. — Saudi Arabia · tree and pragmatics
description: The preferred ulema are of the Salafi movement. Who acts: preferred ulema. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Saudi Arabia» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Saudi Arabia, sentence 253

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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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The preferred ulema are of the Salafi movement.

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**Who acts:** preferred ulema · **What happens:** be

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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 (preferred ulema), 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:253
# text = The preferred ulema are of the Salafi movement.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	preferred	preferred	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	ulema	ulema	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	Salafi	Salafi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	movement	movement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the preferred ulema |  |  |  |  | of the Salafi movement | tree rules |

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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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