--- title: According to former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in Decem… — Saudi Arabia · tree and pragmatics description: According to former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in December 2010, "Saudi Arabia remains a critical financial support base for al-Qaida, the Taliban, LeT and other terrorist groups... Who acts: Saudi Arabia. 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According to former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in December 2010, "Saudi Arabia remains a critical financial support base for al-Qaida, the Taliban, LeT and other terrorist groups... **Who acts:** Saudi Arabia · **What happens:** accord, remain, let · **To what, where:** critical financial support base 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), 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:317 # text = According to former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in December 2010, "Saudi Arabia remains a critical financial support base for al-Qaida, the Taliban, LeT and other terrorist groups... 1 According accord VERB VBG ExtPos=ADP|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 5 case _ _ 2 to to ADP IN _ 1 fixed _ _ 3 former former ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 4 U.S. U.S. PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 Secretary Secretary PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 7 State State PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 8 Hillary Hillary PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 9 Clinton Clinton PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 10 in in ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 December December PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 nmod _ _ 12 2010 2010 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 11 nmod:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 14 " " PUNCT `` _ 17 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 15 Saudi Saudi ADJ NNP Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 Arabia Arabia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 17 remains remain VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 19 critical critical ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 20 financial financial ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 21 support support NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 compound _ _ 22 base base NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 23 for for ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 al Al PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 25 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 26 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 26 Qaida Qaida PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 Taliban Taliban PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 31 LeT let VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 17 conj _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 33 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 34 terrorist terrorist NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 compound _ _ 35 groups group NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 36 ... ... PUNCT . _ 17 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **accord** | gerund | | | | | | | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **remain** *in a quote* | present | Saudi Arabia | a critical financial support base | | | | accord former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in December 2010; for al and the Taliban | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme base=Attribute | | 3 | **let** *in a quote* | infinitive | Saudi Arabia *not said here* | | | | | other terrorist groups *conj* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=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 316](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Saudi_Arabia/316/) - next →: [sentence 318](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Saudi_Arabia/318/) - ↑ back to [Saudi Arabia](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Saudi_Arabia/)