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title: In many countries, one is advised to negotiate a fare with the drive… — Muscat · tree and pragmatics
description: In many countries, one is advised to negotiate a fare with the driver before getting into a taxi. Who acts: one. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Muscat» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Muscat, sentence 195

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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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In many countries, one is advised to negotiate a fare with the driver before getting into a taxi.

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**Who acts:** one · **What happens:** advise, negotiate, get · **To what, where:** one, many countries, fare, taxi

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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 (one), 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:195
# text = In many countries, one is advised to negotiate a fare with the driver before getting into a taxi.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	countries	country	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	advised	advise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	negotiate	negotiate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	fare	fare	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	driver	driver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
15	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
16	getting	get	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
17	into	into	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	taxi	taxi	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **advise** *speech: other* | present · passive |  | one |  | many countries |  |  | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP how S\_INF»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **negotiate** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | one *not said here* | a fare |  |  |  | with the driver | tree rules |
| 3 | **get** | gerund | one *not said here* |  |  | a taxi |  |  | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into taxi=Destination |

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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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