Oman, sentence 170
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.
In 1937, an agreement between the sultan and Iraq Petroleum Company (IPC), a consortium of oil companies that was 23.75% British owned, was signed to grant oil concessions to IPC.
What happens: own, sign, grant · To what, where: consortium, agreement, 1937, oil concessions, IPC
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: 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 1937 | case |
| 2 | 1937 | 1937 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 30 signed | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 agreement | punct |
| 4 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 agreement | det |
| 5 | agreement | agreement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 signed | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | between | between | ADP | _ | 8 sultan | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 sultan | det |
| 8 | sultan | sultan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 agreement | nmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 Company | cc |
| 10 | Iraq | Iraq | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Company | compound |
| 11 | Petroleum | Petroleum | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Company | compound |
| 12 | Company | Company | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 sultan | conj |
| 13 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 14 IPC | punct |
| 14 | IPC | IPC | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Company | appos |
| 15 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 14 IPC | punct |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 consortium | punct |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 consortium | det |
| 18 | consortium | consortium | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 agreement | conj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 companies | case |
| 20 | oil | oil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 companies | compound |
| 21 | companies | company | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 consortium | nmod |
| 22 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 owned | obj |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 owned | aux:pass |
| 24 | 23.75 | 23.75 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 25 % | nummod |
| 25 | % | % | SYM | Number=Sing | 27 owned | nsubj:pass |
| 26 | British | British | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 owned | amod |
| 27 | owned | own | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 consortium | acl:relcl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 agreement | punct |
| 29 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 signed | aux:pass |
| 30 | signed | sign | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 grant | mark |
| 32 | grant | grant | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 signed | xcomp |
| 33 | oil | oil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 concessions | compound |
| 34 | concessions | concession | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 grant | obj |
| 35 | to | to | ADP | _ | 36 IPC | case |
| 36 | IPC | IPC | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 grant | obl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 30 signed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | own | past · passive | a consortium of oil companies | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | sign | past · passive | a agreement between the sultan and Iraq Petroleum Company and a consortium of oil companies | 1937 | vn instr_communication-37.4.1 «NP V NP.recipient when S_INF»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | grant | to-infinitive | oil concessions | IPC | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent concession=Theme to ipc=Goal |
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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