--- title: Saudi Arabia maintains a list of sectors in which foreign investment… — Saudi Arabia · tree and pragmatics description: Saudi Arabia maintains a list of sectors in which foreign investment is prohibited, but the government plans to open some closed sectors such as telecommunications, insurance, and power transmission/distribution over time. Who acts: Saudi Arabia, government. 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Saudi Arabia maintains a list of sectors in which foreign investment is prohibited, but the government plans to open some closed sectors such as telecommunications, insurance, and power transmission/distribution over time. **Who acts:** Saudi Arabia, government · **What happens:** maintain, prohibit, plan, open, close, list · **To what, where:** list, foreign investment, sectors, closed sectors 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, government), 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:382 # text = Saudi Arabia maintains a list of sectors in which foreign investment is prohibited, but the government plans to open some closed sectors such as telecommunications, insurance, and power transmission/distribution over time. 1 Saudi Saudi ADJ NNP Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 Arabia Arabia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 maintains maintain VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 list list NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 sectors sector NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nmod _ _ 8 in in ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 13 obl _ _ 10 foreign foreign ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 investment investment NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj:pass _ _ 12 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 aux:pass _ _ 13 prohibited prohibit VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 15 but but CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 government government NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 18 plans plan VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 19 to to PART TO _ 20 mark _ _ 20 open open VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 xcomp _ _ 21 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 23 det _ _ 22 closed close VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 23 amod _ _ 23 sectors sector NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obj _ _ 24 such such ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP 26 case _ _ 25 as as ADP IN _ 24 fixed _ _ 26 telecommunications telecommunication NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 28 insurance insurance NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 31 power power NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 compound _ _ 32 transmission/distribution transmission/distribution NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 33 over over ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 35 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **maintain** | present | Saudi Arabia | a list of sectors | | | | power transmission/distribution over time *obl* | vn declare-29.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent list=Theme | | 2 | **prohibit** | present · passive | | foreign investment | | sectors | | | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 3 | **plan** | present | the government | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **open** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the government *not said here* | some closed sectors | | | | such telecommunications and insurance | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location sector=Theme | | 5 | **close** | participle | | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 6 | **list** | | | sectors | | | | | nom list «communication transitive»: of=patient | 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 381](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Saudi_Arabia/381/) - next →: [sentence 383](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Saudi_Arabia/383/) - ↑ back to [Saudi Arabia](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Saudi_Arabia/)