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title: Saudi Arabia has traditionally sought to preserve the regional statu… — Saudi Arabia · tree and pragmatics
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# Saudi Arabia, sentence 299

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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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Saudi Arabia has traditionally sought to preserve the regional status quo by using its financial, diplomatic, and military resources to limit the effects of revolutionary uprisings in neighbouring countries.

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**Who acts:** Saudi Arabia, military resources · **What happens:** seek, preserve, use, limit, effect · **To what, where:** regional status quo, financial, effects, revolutionary uprisings

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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 (Saudi Arabia, military resources), 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:299
# text = Saudi Arabia has traditionally sought to preserve the regional status quo by using its financial, diplomatic, and military resources to limit the effects of revolutionary uprisings in neighbouring countries.
1	Saudi	Saudi	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	Arabia	Arabia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	traditionally	traditionally	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	sought	seek	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	preserve	preserve	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	regional	regional	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	status	status	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	quo	quo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
12	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
13	using	use	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
14	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	financial	financial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	diplomatic	diplomatic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
20	military	military	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	resources	resource	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	limit	limit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	effects	effect	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	revolutionary	revolutionary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	uprisings	uprising	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nmod	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	neighbouring	neighbouring	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	countries	country	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seek** | present · perfect | Saudi Arabia |  |  |  |  | traditionally *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **preserve** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Saudi Arabia *not said here* | the regional status quo |  |  |  |  | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent quo=Beneficiary |
| 3 | **use** | gerund | Saudi Arabia *not said here* | quo's financial |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent financial=Patient |
| 4 | **limit** | to-infinitive | military resources | the effects of revolutionary uprisings in neighbouring countries |  |  |  |  | vn limit-76 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer effect=Patient |
| 5 | **effect** |  |  | revolutionary uprisings in neighbouring countries |  |  |  |  | nom effect «phenomenon 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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