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title: In 1966, an earthwork in Tarout exposed an ancient burial field that… — Saudi Arabia · tree and pragmatics
description: In 1966, an earthwork in Tarout exposed an ancient burial field that yielded a large statue dating to the Dilmunite period (mid 3rd millennium BCE). Who acts: earthwork, ancient burial field. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Saudi Arabia» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Saudi Arabia, sentence 54

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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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In 1966, an earthwork in Tarout exposed an ancient burial field that yielded a large statue dating to the Dilmunite period (mid 3rd millennium BCE).

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**Who acts:** earthwork, ancient burial field · **What happens:** expose, yield · **To what, where:** ancient burial field, 1966, large statue dating, Dilmunite period

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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 (earthwork, ancient burial field), 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:54
# text = In 1966, an earthwork in Tarout exposed an ancient burial field that yielded a large statue dating to the Dilmunite period (mid 3rd millennium BCE).
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	1966	1966	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	earthwork	earthwork	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Tarout	Tarout	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	exposed	expose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	ancient	ancient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
11	burial	burial	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
13	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
14	yielded	yield	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
16	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
17	statue	statue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	dating	dating	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	Dilmunite	Dilmunite	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	period	period	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
23	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	mid	mid	ADJ	AFX	Degree=Pos|Typo=Yes	22	amod	_	_
25	3rd	3rd	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Ord	26	amod	_	_
26	millennium	millennium	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	goeswith	_	_
27	BCE	BCE	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **expose** | past | a earthwork in Tarout | a ancient burial field |  | 1966 |  |  | vn indicate-78 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot field=Topic |
| 2 | **yield** | past | a ancient burial field | a large statue dating |  |  |  | to the Dilmunite period *goal* | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent dating=Theme to period=Goal |

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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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