Oman, sentence 142

From Wikipedia, «Oman», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.

The British Empire was keen to dominate southeast Arabia to stifle the growing power of other European states and to curb the Omani maritime power that grew during the 17th century.

Who acts: British Empire, Omani, maritime power · What happens: be, stifle, grow, curb, power · To what, where: dominate southeast, growing power

This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Oman». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (British Empire, Omani, maritime power), 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Empire	det
2	British	British	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Empire	amod
3	Empire	Empire	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 keen	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 keen	cop
5	keen	keen	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 southeast	case
7	dominate	dominant	ADJ	Degree=Pos Typo=Yes	8 southeast	amod
8	southeast	Southeast	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 keen	obl
9	Arabia	Arabia	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 southeast	flat
10	to	to	PART	_	11 stifle	mark
11	stifle	stifle	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 keen	advcl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 power	det
13	growing	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 power	amod
14	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 stifle	obj
15	of	of	ADP	_	18 states	case
16	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 states	amod
17	European	European	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 states	amod
18	states	state	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 power	nmod
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 curb	cc
20	to	to	PART	_	21 curb	mark
21	curb	curb	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 stifle	conj
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 power	det
23	Omani	Omani	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 power	nsubj
24	maritime	maritime	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 power	amod
25	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 curb	obj
26	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 grew	nsubj
27	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 power	acl:relcl
28	during	during	ADP	_	31 century	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 century	det
30	17th	17th	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Combi NumType=Ord	31 century	amod
31	century	century	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 grew	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 keen	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the British Empire		dominate southeast		keen property	tree rules
2	stifle	to-infinitive	the British Empire not said here	the growing power of other European states				vn suffocate-40.7 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent power=Patient
3	grow	gerund						vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	curb	to-infinitive	the British Empire not said here					vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	power		Omani					tree rules
6	grow	past	the maritime power			century		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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Oman, sentence 142