Oman, sentence 83
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.
Many of the Omani Azd who settled in Basra became wealthy merchants and, under their leader al-Muhallab ibn Abi Sufra, started to expand their influence of power eastwards towards Khorasan.
Who acts: Many, Basra · What happens: settle, become, start, expand · To what, where: wealthy merchants, leader, influence
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 (Many, Basra), 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 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 settled | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Azd | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Azd | det |
| 4 | Omani | Omani | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Azd | compound |
| 5 | Azd | Azd | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Many | nmod |
| 6 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 settled | nsubj |
| 7 | settled | settle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 Basra | case |
| 9 | Basra | Basra | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 became | nsubj |
| 10 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 settled | ccomp |
| 11 | wealthy | wealthy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 merchants | amod |
| 12 | merchants | merchant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 became | xcomp |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 started | cc |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 and | punct |
| 15 | under | under | ADP | _ | 17 leader | case |
| 16 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 leader | nmod:poss |
| 17 | leader | leader | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 started | obl |
| 18 | al | Al | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 leader | appos |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 al | punct |
| 20 | Muhallab | Muhallab | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 al | flat |
| 21 | ibn | Ibn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 al | flat |
| 22 | Abi | Abi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 al | flat |
| 23 | Sufra | Sufra | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 al | flat |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 leader | punct |
| 25 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 settled | conj |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 expand | mark |
| 27 | expand | expand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 started | xcomp |
| 28 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 influence | nmod:poss |
| 29 | influence | influence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 expand | obj |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 eastwards | case |
| 31 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 eastwards | compound |
| 32 | eastwards | eastward | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 influence | nmod |
| 33 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 34 Khorasan | case |
| 34 | Khorasan | Khorasan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 expand | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 settled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | settle | past | Many of the Omani Azd | who nsubj | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | become | past | Basra | wealthy merchants | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | start | past | Many of the Omani Azd not said here | Omanis's leader | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | expand | to-infinitive | Many of the Omani Azd not said here | Omanis's influence of power eastwards | towards Khorasan | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent influence=Patient |
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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