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title: Oman's cultural diversity is greater than that of its Arab neighbour… — Muscat · tree and pragmatics
description: Oman's cultural diversity is greater than that of its Arab neighbours, given its historical expansion to the Swahili Coast and the Indian Ocean. Who acts: cultural diversity, Arab neighbours, diversity. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Muscat» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Muscat, sentence 203

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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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Oman's cultural diversity is greater than that of its Arab neighbours, given its historical expansion to the Swahili Coast and the Indian Ocean.

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**Who acts:** cultural diversity, Arab neighbours, diversity · **What happens:** be, give, expand · **To what, where:** historical expansion, Swahili Coast

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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 (cultural diversity, Arab neighbours, diversity), 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:203
# text = Oman's cultural diversity is greater than that of its Arab neighbours, given its historical expansion to the Swahili Coast and the Indian Ocean.
1	Oman	Oman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	cultural	cultural	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	diversity	diversity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	greater	great	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
7	than	than	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
11	Arab	Arab	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	neighbours	neighbour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl	_	_
15	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
16	historical	historical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	expansion	expansion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	Swahili	Swahili	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	Coast	Coast	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	Indian	Indian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	Ocean	Ocean	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Oman's cultural diversity |  |  |  |  | than that of diversity's Arab neighbours; great *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **give** | participle | diversity's Arab neighbours *not said here* | diversity's historical expansion | the Swahili Coast and the Indian Ocean |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent expansion=Theme to coast=Recipient |
| 3 | **expand** |  | diversity |  |  |  |  | to the Swahili Coast and the Indian Ocean | nom expansion «act transitive»: poss=agent to=obl |

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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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