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title: These are relatively inexpensive and service all major roadways, as… — Muscat · tree and pragmatics
description: These are relatively inexpensive and service all major roadways, as well as a wide and loose network of smaller byways in the greater Muscat metropolitan area, opportunistically dropping off and picking up passengers at any location. Who acts: These, greater Muscat metropolitan area. A sentence of W
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# Muscat, sentence 190

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From Wikipedia, [«Muscat»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muscat), 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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These are relatively inexpensive and service all major roadways, as well as a wide and loose network of smaller byways in the greater Muscat metropolitan area, opportunistically dropping off and picking up passengers at any location.

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**Who acts:** These, greater Muscat metropolitan area · **What happens:** be, drop off, pick up · **To what, where:** passengers, location

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Muscat». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (These, greater Muscat metropolitan area), 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:Muscat:190
# text = These are relatively inexpensive and service all major roadways, as well as a wide and loose network of smaller byways in the greater Muscat metropolitan area, opportunistically dropping off and picking up passengers at any location.
1	These	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	4	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	relatively	relatively	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	inexpensive	inexpensive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	service	service	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
7	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	9	det	_	_
8	major	major	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	roadways	roadway	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
11	as	as	ADV	RB	ExtPos=CCONJ	18	cc	_	_
12	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	11	fixed	_	_
13	as	as	ADP	IN	_	11	fixed	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
15	wide	wide	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	loose	loose	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	conj	_	_
18	network	network	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	parataxis	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	smaller	small	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	21	amod	_	_
21	byways	byway	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
24	greater	great	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	27	amod	_	_
25	Muscat	muscat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
26	metropolitan	metropolitan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	area	area	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	opportunistically	opportunistically	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	dropping	drop	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	27	acl	_	_
31	off	off	ADP	RP	_	30	compound:prt	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	picking	pick	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	30	conj	_	_
34	up	up	ADP	RP	_	33	compound:prt	_	_
35	passengers	passenger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	obj	_	_
36	at	at	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	38	det	_	_
38	location	location	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | These |  |  |  |  | all major roadways  a wide network of smaller byways in the greater Muscat metropolitan area *obl*; service *conj*; inexpensive, relatively *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **drop off** | gerund | the greater Muscat metropolitan area *not said here* |  |  |  |  | opportunistically *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **pick up** | gerund | the greater Muscat metropolitan area *not said here* | passengers |  | any location |  |  | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent passenger=Topic |

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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, «Muscat», 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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