Oman, sentence 198
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.
On 4 August 1957, the British Foreign Secretary gave the approval to carry out air strikes without prior warning to the locals residing in the interior of Oman.
Who acts: British Foreign Secretary, locals · What happens: give, carry out, reside · To what, where: approval, air strikes, interior
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 Foreign Secretary, locals), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 August | case |
| 2 | 4 | 4 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 August | nummod |
| 3 | August | August | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 gave | obl |
| 4 | 1957 | 1957 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 August | flat |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 August | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Secretary | det |
| 7 | British | British | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 Secretary | amod |
| 8 | Foreign | Foreign | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 Secretary | amod |
| 9 | Secretary | Secretary | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 gave | nsubj |
| 10 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 approval | det |
| 12 | approval | approval | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 gave | obj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 carry | mark |
| 14 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 gave | advcl |
| 15 | out | out | ADP | _ | 14 carry | compound:prt |
| 16 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 strikes | compound |
| 17 | strikes | strike | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 carry | obj |
| 18 | without | without | ADP | _ | 20 warning | case |
| 19 | prior | prior | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 warning | amod |
| 20 | warning | warning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 carry | obl |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 locals | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 locals | det |
| 23 | locals | local | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 warning | nmod |
| 24 | residing | reside | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 23 locals | acl |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 interior | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 interior | det |
| 27 | interior | interior | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 residing | obl |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 Oman | case |
| 29 | Oman | Oman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 interior | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | the British Foreign Secretary | the approval | august | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent approval=Theme | |||
| 2 | carry out | to-infinitive | the British Foreign Secretary not said here | air strikes | without prior warning to the locals | vn act-114 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent strike=Eventuality | |||
| 3 | reside | gerund | the locals not said here | the interior of Oman | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in interior=Location |
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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