--- title: Having gained control over Zanzibar, in 1840 Said moved his capital… — Muscat · tree and pragmatics description: Having gained control over Zanzibar, in 1840 Said moved his capital to Stone Town, the ancient quarter of Zanzibar City; however, after his death in 1856, control over Zanzibar was lost when it became an independent sultanate under his sixth son, Majid bin Said (1834/5–1870), while the third son, Th --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Muscat/51/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [wikipedia](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/) / [en](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/) / [Muscat](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Muscat/) / 51 # Muscat, sentence 51 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. Having gained control over Zanzibar, in 1840 Said moved his capital to Stone Town, the ancient quarter of Zanzibar City; however, after his death in 1856, control over Zanzibar was lost when it became an independent sultanate under his sixth son, Majid bin Said (1834/5–1870), while the third son, Thuwaini bin Said, became the Sultan of Oman. **Who acts:** Said, control, Having · **What happens:** have, gain, move, lose, become, die · **To what, where:** gained control, Zanzibar, capital, Stone Town, 1840, control 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 (Said, control, Having), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:51 # text = Having gained control over Zanzibar, in 1840 Said moved his capital to Stone Town, the ancient quarter of Zanzibar City; however, after his death in 1856, control over Zanzibar was lost when it became an independent sultanate under his sixth son, Majid bin Said (1834/5–1870), while the third son, Thuwaini bin Said, became the Sultan of Oman. 1 Having have VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 66 csubj _ _ 2 gained gain VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 amod _ _ 3 control control NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 over over ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 Zanzibar Zanzibar PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 7 in in ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 1840 1840 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 10 obl _ _ 9 Said Said PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 10 moved move VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 1 parataxis _ _ 11 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 12 capital capital NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 13 to to ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 Stone Stone PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 compound _ _ 15 Town Town PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 ancient ancient ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 quarter quarter NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 appos _ _ 20 of of ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 Zanzibar Zanzibar PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 compound _ _ 22 City City PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 23 ; ; PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 24 however however ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 26 after after ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 28 nmod:poss _ _ 28 death death NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obl _ _ 29 in in ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 1856 1856 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 28 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 32 control control NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nsubj:pass _ _ 33 over over ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 Zanzibar Zanzibar PROPN NNP Number=Sing 32 nmod _ _ 35 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 36 aux:pass _ _ 36 lost lose VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 10 conj _ _ 37 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 39 advmod _ _ 38 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 39 nsubj _ _ 39 became become VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 36 advcl _ _ 40 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 41 independent independent ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 42 amod _ _ 42 sultanate sultanate NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 xcomp _ _ 43 under under ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 44 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 46 nmod:poss _ _ 45 sixth sixth ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 46 amod _ _ 46 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 47 , , PUNCT , _ 48 punct _ _ 48 Majid Majid PROPN NNP Number=Sing 46 appos _ _ 49 bin Bin PROPN NNP Number=Sing 48 flat _ _ 50 Said Said PROPN NNP Number=Sing 48 flat _ _ 51 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 52 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 52 1834/5 1834/5 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 48 list _ SpaceAfter=No 53 – – SYM SYM ExtPos=ADP 54 case _ SpaceAfter=No 54 1870 1870 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 52 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 55 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 52 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 56 , , PUNCT , _ 60 punct _ _ 57 while while SCONJ IN _ 60 mark _ _ 58 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 60 det _ _ 59 third third ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 60 amod _ _ 60 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 61 , , PUNCT , _ 62 punct _ _ 62 Thuwaini Thuwaini PROPN NNP Number=Sing 60 appos _ _ 63 bin Bin PROPN NNP Number=Sing 62 flat _ _ 64 Said Said PROPN NNP Number=Sing 62 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 65 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 66 became become VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 67 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 68 det _ _ 68 Sultan Sultan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 66 xcomp _ _ 69 of of ADP IN _ 70 case _ _ 70 Oman Oman PROPN NNP Number=Sing 68 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 71 . . PUNCT . _ 66 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | gerund | | gained control | | Zanzibar | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent control=Patient | | 2 | **gain** | participle | | | | | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 3 | **move** | past | Said | Said's capital | Stone Town | 1840 | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent capital=Theme to town=Result | | 4 | **lose** | past · passive | | control over Zanzibar | | | after Said's death in 1856 | the third son *obl*; however *property* | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | | 5 | **become** | past | control | a independent sultanate under Said's sixth son | | | | | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | | 6 | **become** | past | Having | | | | | the Sultan of Oman *xcomp* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | | 7 | **die** | | Said | | | | | | nom death «event intransitive»: poss=agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 50](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Muscat/50/) - next →: [sentence 52](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Muscat/52/) - ↑ back to [Muscat](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Muscat/)