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title: The earliest sedentary culture in Saudi Arabia dates to the Ubaid pe… — Saudi Arabia · tree and pragmatics
description: The earliest sedentary culture in Saudi Arabia dates to the Ubaid period at Dosariyah. Who acts: earliest sedentary culture. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Saudi Arabia» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Saudi Arabia, sentence 47

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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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The earliest sedentary culture in Saudi Arabia dates to the Ubaid period at Dosariyah.

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**Who acts:** earliest sedentary culture · **What happens:** date

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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 (earliest sedentary culture), 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:47
# text = The earliest sedentary culture in Saudi Arabia dates to the Ubaid period at Dosariyah.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	earliest	early	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	4	amod	_	_
3	sedentary	sedentary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	culture	culture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	Saudi	Saudi	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	Arabia	Arabia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	dates	date	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	Ubaid	Ubaid	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	period	period	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
13	at	at	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Dosariyah	Dosariyah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **date** | present | the earliest sedentary culture in Saudi Arabia |  |  |  |  | to the Ubaid period at Dosariyah | vn marry-36.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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