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title: Less popular and slightly more expensive are large public buses, col… — Muscat · tree and pragmatics
description: Less popular and slightly more expensive are large public buses, coloured red and green, whose service is limited to major roadways and point-to-point travel routes between Oman's major cities and towns. Who acts: service. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Muscat» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Muscat, sentence 191

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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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Less popular and slightly more expensive are large public buses, coloured red and green, whose service is limited to major roadways and point-to-point travel routes between Oman's major cities and towns.

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**Who acts:** service · **What happens:** be, colour · **To what, where:** popular large public buses

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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 (service), 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:191
# text = Less popular and slightly more expensive are large public buses, coloured red and green, whose service is limited to major roadways and point-to-point travel routes between Oman's major cities and towns.
1	Less	less	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	2	advmod	_	_
2	popular	popular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
4	slightly	slightly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	6	advmod	_	_
6	expensive	expensive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
7	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
8	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	public	public	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	buses	bus	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	coloured	colour	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl	_	_
13	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	xcomp	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	service	service	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
19	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
20	limited	limited	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	conj	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
22	major	major	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	roadways	roadway	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	point	point	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	point	point	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	appos	_	_
30	travel	travel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	routes	route	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nmod	_	_
32	between	between	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
33	Oman	Oman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	's	's	PART	POS	_	33	case	_	_
35	major	major	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	cities	city	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nmod	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
38	towns	town	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	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 a** | present |  | popular large public buses |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **colour** | participle |  | popular large public buses *not said here* |  |  |  | red *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | present | service |  |  |  |  | major roadways and point *obl*; limited *property* | tree rules |

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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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