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title: The British Empire was keen to dominate southeast Arabia to stifle t… — Oman · tree and pragmatics
description: The British Empire was keen to dominate southeast Arabia to stifle the growing power of other European states and to curb the Omani maritime power that grew during the 17th century. Who acts: British Empire, Omani, maritime power. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Oman» with its dependency tree and pragmat
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# Oman, sentence 142

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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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The British Empire was keen to dominate southeast Arabia to stifle the growing power of other European states and to curb the Omani maritime power that grew during the 17th century.

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**Who acts:** British Empire, Omani, maritime power · **What happens:** be, stifle, grow, curb, power · **To what, where:** dominate southeast, growing power

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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 Empire, Omani, maritime power), 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:142
# text = The British Empire was keen to dominate southeast Arabia to stifle the growing power of other European states and to curb the Omani maritime power that grew during the 17th century.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	British	British	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Empire	Empire	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	keen	keen	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	dominate	dominant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|Typo=Yes	8	amod	_	_
8	southeast	Southeast	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	Arabia	Arabia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	flat	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	stifle	stifle	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	advcl	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	growing	grow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	amod	_	_
14	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
17	European	European	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	states	state	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	curb	curb	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
23	Omani	Omani	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
24	maritime	maritime	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
26	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	27	nsubj	_	_
27	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	acl:relcl	_	_
28	during	during	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	17th	17th	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Ord	31	amod	_	_
31	century	century	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the British Empire |  | dominate southeast |  |  | keen *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **stifle** | to-infinitive | the British Empire *not said here* | the growing power of other European states |  |  |  |  | vn suffocate-40.7 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent power=Patient |
| 3 | **grow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **curb** | to-infinitive | the British Empire *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **power** |  | Omani |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **grow** | past | the maritime power |  |  |  | century |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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, «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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