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title: However, in August 2019, the kingdom's strategy received criticism f… — Saudi Arabia · tree and pragmatics
description: However, in August 2019, the kingdom's strategy received criticism for appearing as a method of sportswashing soon after Saudi's US-based 2018 lobbying campaign foreign registration documentations got published online. Who acts: strategy. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Saudi Arabia» with its dependency 
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# Saudi Arabia, sentence 660

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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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However, in August 2019, the kingdom's strategy received criticism for appearing as a method of sportswashing soon after Saudi's US-based 2018 lobbying campaign foreign registration documentations got published online.

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**Who acts:** strategy · **What happens:** receive, appear, base, lobby, publish · **To what, where:** criticism, Saudi, campaign

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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 (strategy), 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:660
# text = However, in August 2019, the kingdom's strategy received criticism for appearing as a method of sportswashing soon after Saudi's US-based 2018 lobbying campaign foreign registration documentations got published online.
1	However	however	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	August	August	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
5	2019	2019	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	's	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	strategy	strategy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	received	receive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	criticism	criticism	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
13	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
14	appearing	appear	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
15	as	as	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	method	method	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	sportswashing	sportswashing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
20	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	26	advmod	_	_
21	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
22	Saudi	Saudi	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	26	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	's	's	PART	POS	_	22	case	_	_
24	US	US	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	based	base	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	advcl	_	_
27	2018	2018	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	26	obl	_	_
28	lobbying	lobby	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	27	acl	_	_
29	campaign	campaign	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nsubj:pass	_	_
30	foreign	foreign	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
31	registration	registration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
32	documentations	documentation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	nsubj:pass	_	_
33	got	get	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	aux:pass	_	_
34	published	publish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	28	ccomp	_	_
35	online	online	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **receive** | past | the kingdom's strategy | criticism |  |  | august | however *property* | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent criticism=Theme |
| 2 | **appear** | gerund | the kingdom's strategy *not said here* |  |  |  |  | as a method of sportswashing | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **base** | participle · passive |  | Saudi |  |  |  | US *obl:unmarked*; 2018 *obl*; soon *property* | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme |
| 4 | **lobby** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **publish** | past · passive |  | campaign |  |  |  | foreign registration documentations *nsubj:pass*; online *property* | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: subject=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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