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title: The various healthcare institutions were merged to become a minister… — Saudi Arabia · tree and pragmatics
description: The various healthcare institutions were merged to become a ministerial body in 1950. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Saudi Arabia» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Saudi Arabia, sentence 501

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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 various healthcare institutions were merged to become a ministerial body in 1950.

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**What happens:** merge, become · **To what, where:** various healthcare institutions, ministerial body, 1950

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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: 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:501
# text = The various healthcare institutions were merged to become a ministerial body in 1950.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	various	various	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	healthcare	healthcare	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	institutions	institution	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	merged	merge	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	become	become	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	ministerial	ministerial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	xcomp	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	1950	1950	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **merge** | past · passive |  | the various healthcare institutions |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **become** | to-infinitive |  | a ministerial body |  |  |  | in 1950 *result* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in 1950=Result |

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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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