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title: The merchant community played an important role in expelling the Eur… — Muscat · tree and pragmatics
description: The merchant community played an important role in expelling the Europeans in 1650. Who acts: merchant community. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Muscat» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Muscat, sentence 55

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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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The merchant community played an important role in expelling the Europeans in 1650.

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**Who acts:** merchant community · **What happens:** play, expel · **To what, where:** important role, Europeans, 1650

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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 (merchant community), 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:55
# text = The merchant community played an important role in expelling the Europeans in 1650.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	merchant	merchant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	community	community	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	played	play	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	important	important	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	role	role	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
9	expelling	expel	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	Europeans	European	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	1650	1650	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **play** | past | the merchant community | a important role |  |  |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent role=Theme |
| 2 | **expel** | gerund | the merchant community *not said here* | the Europeans |  | 1650 |  |  | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent european=Theme |

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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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