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title: Issued by the Central Bank of Oman (CBO), the rial is subdivided int… — Oman · tree and pragmatics
description: Issued by the Central Bank of Oman (CBO), the rial is subdivided into 1,000 baisa (also written baiza, بيسة) — making it one of only a handful of currencies in the world divided into 1,000 rather than 100 subunits. Who acts: currencies. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Oman» with its dependency tree and p
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# Oman, sentence 501

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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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Issued by the Central Bank of Oman (CBO), the rial is subdivided into 1,000 baisa (also written baiza, بيسة) — making it one of only a handful of currencies in the world divided into 1,000 rather than 100 subunits.

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**Who acts:** currencies · **What happens:** issue, subdivide, write, make, divide · **To what, where:** rial, 1,000 baisa, handful, 1,000

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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 (currencies), 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:501
# text = Issued by the Central Bank of Oman (CBO), the rial is subdivided into 1,000 baisa (also written baiza, بيسة) — making it one of only a handful of currencies in the world divided into 1,000 rather than 100 subunits.
1	Issued	issue	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
2	by	by	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	Central	Central	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	flat	_	_
5	Bank	Bank	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Oman	Oman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	CBO	CBO	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	rial	rial	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux:pass	_	_
15	subdivided	subdivide	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
16	into	into	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	1,000	1000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	18	nummod	_	_
18	baisa	baisa	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
19	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	also	also	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	written	write	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	amod	_	_
22	baiza	baiza	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	بيسة	بيسة	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	22	punct	_	_
26	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	27	punct	_	_
27	making	make	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	advcl	_	_
28	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	_
29	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	27	xcomp	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	only	only	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	handful	handful	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	currencies	currency	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	nsubj	_	_
36	in	in	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	_
39	divided	divide	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	acl:relcl	_	_
40	into	into	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	1,000	1000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	39	obl	_	_
42	rather	rather	ADV	RB	ExtPos=CCONJ	45	cc	_	_
43	than	than	ADP	IN	_	42	fixed	_	_
44	100	100	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	45	nummod	_	_
45	subunits	subunit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	41	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **issue** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | by the Central Bank of Oman | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by bank=Location |
| 2 | **subdivide** | present · passive |  | the rial |  | 1,000 baisa |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **write** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **make** | gerund |  | rial |  |  |  | one of a handful *xcomp* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product |
| 5 | **divide** | past | currencies in the world | a handful *not said here* |  | 1,000 rather 100 subunits |  |  | vn multiply-108-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent handful=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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