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title: In 1937, an agreement between the sultan and Iraq Petroleum Company… — Oman · tree and pragmatics
description: In 1937, an agreement between the sultan and Iraq Petroleum Company (IPC), a consortium of oil companies that was 23.75% British owned, was signed to grant oil concessions to IPC. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Oman» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Oman, sentence 170

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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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In 1937, an agreement between the sultan and Iraq Petroleum Company (IPC), a consortium of oil companies that was 23.75% British owned, was signed to grant oil concessions to IPC.

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**What happens:** own, sign, grant · **To what, where:** consortium, agreement, 1937, oil concessions, IPC

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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: 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:170
# text = In 1937, an agreement between the sultan and Iraq Petroleum Company (IPC), a consortium of oil companies that was 23.75% British owned, was signed to grant oil concessions to IPC.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	1937	1937	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	agreement	agreement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	between	between	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	sultan	sultan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	Iraq	Iraq	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
11	Petroleum	Petroleum	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	Company	Company	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
13	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	IPC	IPC	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	consortium	consortium	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	oil	oil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	companies	company	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	_
22	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	27	obj	_	_
23	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux:pass	_	_
24	23.75	23.75	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	25	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	%	%	SYM	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj:pass	_	_
26	British	British	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	owned	own	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
29	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux:pass	_	_
30	signed	sign	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
31	to	to	PART	TO	_	32	mark	_	_
32	grant	grant	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	xcomp	_	_
33	oil	oil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	_
34	concessions	concession	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obj	_	_
35	to	to	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	IPC	IPC	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	30	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **own** | past · passive |  | a consortium of oil companies |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **sign** | past · passive |  | a agreement between the sultan and Iraq Petroleum Company and a consortium of oil companies |  | 1937 |  |  | vn instr\_communication-37.4.1 «NP V NP.recipient when S\_INF»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **grant** | to-infinitive |  | oil concessions | IPC |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent concession=Theme to ipc=Goal |

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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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