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title: On 4 August 1957, the British Foreign Secretary gave the approval to… — Oman · tree and pragmatics
description: On 4 August 1957, the British Foreign Secretary gave the approval to carry out air strikes without prior warning to the locals residing in the interior of Oman. Who acts: British Foreign Secretary, locals. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Oman» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Oman, sentence 198

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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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On 4 August 1957, the British Foreign Secretary gave the approval to carry out air strikes without prior warning to the locals residing in the interior of Oman.

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**Who acts:** British Foreign Secretary, locals · **What happens:** give, carry out, reside · **To what, where:** approval, air strikes, interior

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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 Foreign Secretary, locals), 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:198
# text = On 4 August 1957, the British Foreign Secretary gave the approval to carry out air strikes without prior warning to the locals residing in the interior of Oman.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	4	4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	August	August	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
4	1957	1957	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	British	British	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	Foreign	Foreign	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	Secretary	Secretary	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	approval	approval	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	carry	carry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	advcl	_	_
15	out	out	ADP	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	_
16	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	strikes	strike	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
18	without	without	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	prior	prior	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	warning	warning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	locals	local	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod	_	_
24	residing	reside	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	23	acl	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	interior	interior	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	Oman	Oman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | past | the British Foreign Secretary | the approval |  |  | august |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent approval=Theme |
| 2 | **carry out** | to-infinitive | the British Foreign Secretary *not said here* | air strikes |  |  |  | without prior warning to the locals | vn act-114 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent strike=Eventuality |
| 3 | **reside** | gerund | the locals *not said here* |  |  | the interior of Oman |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in interior=Location |

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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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