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title: Decisively, in 1650, a small but determined body of the Imam's troop… — Muscat · tree and pragmatics
description: Decisively, in 1650, a small but determined body of the Imam's troops attacked the port at night, forcing an eventual Portuguese surrender on January 23, 1650. Who acts: small body. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Muscat» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Muscat, sentence 47

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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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Decisively, in 1650, a small but determined body of the Imam's troops attacked the port at night, forcing an eventual Portuguese surrender on January 23, 1650.

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**Who acts:** small body · **What happens:** attack, force · **To what, where:** port, 1650, eventual Portuguese surrender, 23

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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 (small body), 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:47
# text = Decisively, in 1650, a small but determined body of the Imam's troops attacked the port at night, forcing an eventual Portuguese surrender on January 23, 1650.
1	Decisively	decisively	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	1650	1650	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
7	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
8	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	determined	determined	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	_
10	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	Imam	Imam	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	's	's	PART	POS	_	13	case	_	_
15	troops	troops	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	10	nmod	_	_
16	attacked	attack	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	port	port	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	at	at	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	forcing	force	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	16	advcl	_	_
23	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
24	eventual	eventual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
25	Portuguese	portuguese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	surrender	surrender	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
27	on	on	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	January	January	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	nmod:unmarked	_	_
29	23	23	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
31	1650	1650	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	29	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **attack** | past | a small body of the Imam's troops | the port |  | 1650 | night | decisively *property* | vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent port=Patient |
| 2 | **force** | gerund | a small body of the Imam's troops *not said here* | a eventual Portuguese surrender |  | 23  January |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent surrender=Recipient |

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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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