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title: The Hejaz region, where the Islamic holy cities of Mecca and Medina… — Saudi Arabia · tree and pragmatics
description: The Hejaz region, where the Islamic holy cities of Mecca and Medina are located, is the destination of the Ḥajj pilgrimage, and often deemed to be the cradle of Islam. Who acts: Hejaz region. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Saudi Arabia» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Saudi Arabia, sentence 550

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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 Hejaz region, where the Islamic holy cities of Mecca and Medina are located, is the destination of the Ḥajj pilgrimage, and often deemed to be the cradle of Islam.

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**Who acts:** Hejaz region · **What happens:** locate, be, deem · **To what, where:** Islamic holy cities, destination, cradle

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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 (Hejaz region), 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:550
# text = The Hejaz region, where the Islamic holy cities of Mecca and Medina are located, is the destination of the Ḥajj pilgrimage, and often deemed to be the cradle of Islam.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Hejaz	Hejaz	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	region	region	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
5	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	15	advmod	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	Islamic	Islamic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	holy	holy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	cities	city	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Mecca	Mecca	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	Medina	Medina	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
14	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux:pass	_	_
15	located	locate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	destination	destination	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	Ḥajj	Ḥajj	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	pilgrimage	pilgrimage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	often	often	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	deemed	deem	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	acl:relcl	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
29	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	cop	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	cradle	cradle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	xcomp	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	Islam	Islam	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **locate** | present · passive |  | the Islamic holy cities of Mecca and Medina |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present | the Hejaz region | the destination |  |  |  | of the Ḥajj pilgrimage | tree rules |
| 3 | **deem** | participle |  | the destination *not said here* |  |  |  | often *property* | vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is a** | to-infinitive |  | the cradle |  |  |  | of Islam | tree rules |

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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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