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title: However, the British refused to accept Imam Azzan as a ruler, as he… — Oman · tree and pragmatics
description: However, the British refused to accept Imam Azzan as a ruler, as he was viewed as inimical to their interests. Who acts: British, rulers. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Oman» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Oman, sentence 139

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From Wikipedia, [«Oman»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oman), 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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However, the British refused to accept Imam Azzan as a ruler, as he was viewed as inimical to their interests.

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**Who acts:** British, rulers · **What happens:** refuse, not accept, view, interest · **To what, where:** Imam, British

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Oman». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (British, rulers), 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:Oman:139
# text = However, the British refused to accept Imam Azzan as a ruler, as he was viewed as inimical to their interests.
1	However	however	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	British	British	PROPN	NNP	_	5	nsubj	_	_
5	refused	refuse	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	accept	accept	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
8	Imam	Imam	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
9	Azzan	Azzan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	flat	_	_
10	as	as	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	ruler	ruler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	viewed	view	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	advcl	_	_
18	as	as	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	inimical	inimical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	xcomp	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	interests	interest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **refuse** | past | the British |  |  |  |  | however *property* | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **accept** | to-infinitive | the British *not said here* | Imam |  |  |  | as a ruler | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent imam=Theme as ruler=Attribute |
| 3 | **view** | past · passive |  | British |  |  |  | inimical *property* | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |
| 4 | **interest** |  | rulers *= ruler* |  |  |  |  |  | nom interest «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |

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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, «Oman», 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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