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title: Zanzibar was a valuable property as the main slave market of the Swa… — Oman · tree and pragmatics
description: Zanzibar was a valuable property as the main slave market of the Swahili Coast as well as being a major producer of cloves, and became an increasingly important part of the Omani empire, a fact reflected by the decision of the Sayyid Sa'id bin Sultan, to make it the capital of the empire in 1837. Wh
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# Oman, sentence 153

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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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Zanzibar was a valuable property as the main slave market of the Swahili Coast as well as being a major producer of cloves, and became an increasingly important part of the Omani empire, a fact reflected by the decision of the Sayyid Sa'id bin Sultan, to make it the capital of the empire in 1837.

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**Who acts:** Zanzibar · **What happens:** be, become, reflect, make, market, decide · **To what, where:** valuable property, major producer, important part, fact, decision, 1837

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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 (Zanzibar), 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:153
# text = Zanzibar was a valuable property as the main slave market of the Swahili Coast as well as being a major producer of cloves, and became an increasingly important part of the Omani empire, a fact reflected by the decision of the Sayyid Sa'id bin Sultan, to make it the capital of the empire in 1837.
1	Zanzibar	Zanzibar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	valuable	valuable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	property	property	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	as	as	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	main	main	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	slave	slave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	market	market	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	Swahili	Swahili	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	Coast	Coast	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
15	as	as	ADV	RB	ExtPos=CCONJ	21	cc	_	_
16	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	15	fixed	_	_
17	as	as	ADP	IN	_	15	fixed	_	_
18	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	21	cop	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	major	major	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	producer	producer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	cloves	clove	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
27	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
28	increasingly	increasingly	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	important	important	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	xcomp	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	Omani	Omani	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	_
34	empire	empire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
36	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	fact	fact	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	conj	_	_
38	reflected	reflect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	37	acl	_	_
39	by	by	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	decision	decision	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	_
42	of	of	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
44	Sayyid	Sayyid	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	45	compound	_	_
45	Sa'id	Sa'id	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	46	compound	_	_
46	bin	bin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	nmod	_	_
47	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	46	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
49	to	to	PART	TO	_	50	mark	_	_
50	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	conj	_	_
51	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	50	obj	_	_
52	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	53	det	_	_
53	capital	capital	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	xcomp	_	_
54	of	of	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
55	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	56	det	_	_
56	empire	empire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	nmod	_	_
57	in	in	ADP	IN	_	58	case	_	_
58	1837	1837	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	50	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | Zanzibar | a valuable property |  |  |  | as the main slave market of the Swahili Coast as a major producer | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | gerund | Zanzibar *not said here* | a major producer |  |  |  | of cloves | tree rules |
| 3 | **become** | past |  | a important part of the Omani empire and a fact |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **reflect** | participle |  | a fact *not said here* |  |  |  | by the decision of the Sa'id bin | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **make** | to-infinitive |  | decision |  | 1837 |  | the capital of the empire *xcomp* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product |
| 6 | **market** |  |  | the Swahili Coast |  |  |  |  | nom market «act transitive»: of=patient |
| 7 | **decide** |  |  | the Sa'id bin |  |  |  |  | nom decision «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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