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title: It is thus believed that the Yaarubah were the first settlers in Oma… — Oman · tree and pragmatics
description: It is thus believed that the Yaarubah were the first settlers in Oman from Yemen. Who acts: first settlers, Yaarubah. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Oman» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Oman, sentence 49

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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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It is thus believed that the Yaarubah were the first settlers in Oman from Yemen.

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**Who acts:** first settlers, Yaarubah · **What happens:** believe, be · **To what, where:** Yaarub, first settlers, Oman

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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 (first settlers, Yaarubah), 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:49
# text = It is thus believed that the Yaarubah were the first settlers in Oman from Yemen.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
3	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	believed	believe	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Yaarubah	Yaarubah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
8	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	11	amod	_	_
11	settlers	settler	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl:agent	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Oman	Oman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
14	from	from	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Yemen	Yemen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **believe** | present · passive | the first settlers | Yaarub |  |  |  | thus *property* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer subject=Stimulus |
| 2 | **is a** | past | the Yaarubah | the first settlers |  | Oman from Yemen |  |  | tree rules |

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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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