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title: South of Muscat, the volcanic rock strata are broken up and distorte… — Muscat · tree and pragmatics
description: South of Muscat, the volcanic rock strata are broken up and distorted, rising to a maximum height of 6000 ft in Al-Dakhiliyah, a region which includes Jebel Akhdar, the country's highest range. Who acts: region. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Muscat» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Muscat, sentence 84

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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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South of Muscat, the volcanic rock strata are broken up and distorted, rising to a maximum height of 6000 ft in Al-Dakhiliyah, a region which includes Jebel Akhdar, the country's highest range.

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**Who acts:** region · **What happens:** break up, distort, rise, include · **To what, where:** South, maximum height, Jebel

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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 (region), 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:84
# text = South of Muscat, the volcanic rock strata are broken up and distorted, rising to a maximum height of 6000 ft in Al-Dakhiliyah, a region which includes Jebel Akhdar, the country's highest range.
1	South	South	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	Muscat	Muscat	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	volcanic	volcanic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	strata	strata	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
9	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	broken	break	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
11	up	up	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	distorted	distort	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	rising	rise	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	maximum	maximum	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	height	height	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	6000	6000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	22	nummod	_	_
22	ft	ft	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nmod	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	Al	Al	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	Dakhiliyah	Dakhiliyah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	region	region	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	appos	_	_
30	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	31	nsubj	_	_
31	includes	include	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	acl:relcl	_	_
32	Jebel	Jebel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
33	Akhdar	Akhdar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	's	's	PART	POS	_	36	case	_	_
38	highest	high	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	39	amod	_	_
39	range	range	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **break up** | present · passive |  | South of Muscat |  |  |  |  | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **distort** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn knead-26.5 «NP.material V PP.product»: agent=Material |
| 3 | **rise** | gerund |  |  |  | a maximum height of 6000 ft in Al |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to height=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **include** | present | a region | Jebel |  |  |  |  | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jebel=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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