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title: There are officially no Saudi citizens who are Christians, as Saudi… — Saudi Arabia · tree and pragmatics
description: There are officially no Saudi citizens who are Christians, as Saudi Arabia forbids religious conversion from Islam (apostasy) and punishes it by death. Who acts: Saudi citizens, Saudi Arabia. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Saudi Arabia» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Saudi Arabia, sentence 460

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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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There are officially no Saudi citizens who are Christians, as Saudi Arabia forbids religious conversion from Islam (apostasy) and punishes it by death.

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**Who acts:** Saudi citizens, Saudi Arabia · **What happens:** be, forbid, punish · **To what, where:** Christians, religious conversion, Islam, conversion

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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 citizens, Saudi Arabia), 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:460
# text = There are officially no Saudi citizens who are Christians, as Saudi Arabia forbids religious conversion from Islam (apostasy) and punishes it by death.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	are	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	officially	officially	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	6	det	_	_
5	Saudi	Saudi	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	citizens	citizen	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
7	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
8	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
9	Christians	Christian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
12	Saudi	Saudi	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	Arabia	Arabia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	forbids	forbid	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
15	religious	religious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	conversion	conversion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	from	from	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	Islam	Islam	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
19	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	apostasy	apostasy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	20	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	punishes	punish	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
24	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	_
25	by	by	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **does** | present | no Saudi citizens |  |  | there |  | officially *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | present | no Saudi citizens | Christians |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **forbid** | present | Saudi Arabia | religious conversion |  | Islam |  |  | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer conversion=Beneficiary from islam=Eventuality |
| 4 | **punish** | present | Saudi Arabia *not said here* | conversion |  |  |  | by death | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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