--- title: The Saudi Arabia national football team is among Asia's strongest, h… — Saudi Arabia · tree and pragmatics description: The Saudi Arabia national football team is among Asia's strongest, having reached a joint record six AFC Asian Cup finals, winning three of those finals (1984, 1988, and 1996) and having qualified for the World Cup four consecutive times ever since debuting at the 1994 tournament. 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The Saudi Arabia national football team is among Asia's strongest, having reached a joint record six AFC Asian Cup finals, winning three of those finals (1984, 1988, and 1996) and having qualified for the World Cup four consecutive times ever since debuting at the 1994 tournament. **Who acts:** Saudi Arabia, national football team, AFC · **What happens:** team, be, reach, final, win, have · **To what, where:** joint record, three finals, 1994 tournament 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 Arabia, national football team, AFC), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:641 # text = The Saudi Arabia national football team is among Asia's strongest, having reached a joint record six AFC Asian Cup finals, winning three of those finals (1984, 1988, and 1996) and having qualified for the World Cup four consecutive times ever since debuting at the 1994 tournament. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 2 Saudi Saudi ADJ NNP Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 Arabia Arabia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 4 national national ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 5 football football NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 team team NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 7 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 cop _ _ 8 among among ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 9 Asia Asia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 10 's 's PART POS _ 9 case _ _ 11 strongest strong ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 having have AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 14 aux _ _ 14 reached reach VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 11 parataxis _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 joint joint ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 record record NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 18 six six NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 22 nummod _ _ 19 AFC AFC PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 20 Asian Asian ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 21 Cup cup NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 compound _ _ 22 finals final NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 24 winning win VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 14 advcl _ _ 25 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 28 nummod _ _ 26 of of ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 those that DET DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 28 det _ _ 28 finals final NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obj _ _ 29 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 30 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 30 1984 1984 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 28 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 32 1988 1988 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 30 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 35 1996 1996 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 14 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 36 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 35 punct _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 38 having have VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 14 conj _ _ 39 qualified qualified ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 xcomp _ _ 40 for for ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 42 World World PROPN NNP Number=Sing 43 compound _ _ 43 Cup Cup PROPN NNP Number=Sing 38 obl _ _ 44 four four NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 46 nummod _ _ 45 consecutive consecutive ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 46 amod _ _ 46 times time NOUN NNS Number=Plur 47 obl:unmarked _ _ 47 ever ever ADV RB PronType=Ind 38 advmod _ _ 48 since since SCONJ IN _ 49 mark _ _ 49 debuting debut VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 38 advcl _ _ 50 at at ADP IN _ 53 case _ _ 51 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 53 det _ _ 52 1994 1994 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 53 nummod _ _ 53 tournament tournament NOUN NN Number=Sing 49 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 54 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **team** | | Saudi Arabia | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **is** | present | the national football team | | | | | Asia *nmod:poss*; strong *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **reach** | gerund · perfect | | a joint record | | | | 1996 *obl* | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent record=Theme | | 4 | **final** | | AFC | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **win** | gerund | | that three finals | | | | | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent final=Eventuality | | 6 | **have** | gerund | | | | | ever | for the World Cup; qualified *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **debut** | gerund | | | | the 1994 tournament | | | tree rules | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 640](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Saudi_Arabia/640/) - next →: [sentence 642](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Saudi_Arabia/642/) - ↑ back to [Saudi Arabia](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Saudi_Arabia/)