--- title: Saudi Arabia has a long-standing military relationship with Pakistan… — Saudi Arabia · tree and pragmatics description: Saudi Arabia has a long-standing military relationship with Pakistan and is speculated to have secretly funded the latter's atomic bomb programme with the intention of purchasing its atomic weapons; in September 2025, both countries entered into a mutual defence pact. 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Saudi Arabia has a long-standing military relationship with Pakistan and is speculated to have secretly funded the latter's atomic bomb programme with the intention of purchasing its atomic weapons; in September 2025, both countries entered into a mutual defence pact. **Who acts:** Saudi Arabia, intention, countries, latter · **What happens:** have, stand, speculate, fund, purchase, enter · **To what, where:** standing military relationship, atomic bomb programme, atomic weapons, mutual defence pact 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, intention, countries, latter), 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:338 # text = Saudi Arabia has a long-standing military relationship with Pakistan and is speculated to have secretly funded the latter's atomic bomb programme with the intention of purchasing its atomic weapons; in September 2025, both countries entered into a mutual defence pact. 1 Saudi Saudi ADJ NNP Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 Arabia Arabia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 5 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 6 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 7 standing stand VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 9 amod _ _ 8 military military ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 relationship relationship NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 10 with with ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 Pakistan Pakistan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 nmod _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 13 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 aux:pass _ _ 14 speculated speculate VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 conj _ _ 15 to to PART TO _ 18 mark _ _ 16 have have AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 18 aux _ _ 17 secretly secretly ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 18 funded fund VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 14 advcl _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 latter latter NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 21 's 's PART POS _ 20 case _ _ 22 atomic atomic ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 23 bomb bomb NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 compound _ _ 24 programme programme NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 25 with with ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 intention intention NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nmod _ _ 28 of of SCONJ IN _ 29 mark _ _ 29 purchasing purchase VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 27 acl _ _ 30 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 32 nmod:poss _ _ 31 atomic atomic ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 weapons weapon NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 33 ; ; PUNCT : _ 40 punct _ _ 34 in in ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 September September PROPN NNP Number=Sing 40 obl _ _ 36 2025 2025 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 35 nmod:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 38 both both DET DT PronType=Tot 39 det _ _ 39 countries country NOUN NNS Number=Plur 40 nsubj _ _ 40 entered enter VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 41 into into ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 42 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 43 mutual mutual ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 45 amod _ _ 44 defence defence NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 compound _ _ 45 pact pact NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 46 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | present | Saudi Arabia | a standing military relationship | | | | with Pakistan | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent relationship=Patient | | 2 | **stand** | gerund | | | | | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **speculate** | present · passive | Saudi Arabia *not said here* | | | | | | vn invest-13.5.4 «NP V PP» | | 4 | **fund** | to-infinitive · perfect | Saudi Arabia *not said here* | the latter's atomic bomb programme | | | | with the intention; secretly *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **purchase** | gerund | the intention *not said here* | intention's atomic weapons | | | | | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset weapon=Theme | | 6 | **enter** | past | both countries | | | a mutual defence pact | september | | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into pact=Initial\_Location | | 7 | **programme** | | the latter | | | | | with the intention | nom programme «communication intransitive»: poss=agent with=obl | 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 337](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Saudi_Arabia/337/) - next →: [sentence 339](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Saudi_Arabia/339/) - ↑ back to [Saudi Arabia](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Saudi_Arabia/)