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title: In October 2004, the Omani government set up a Ministry of Sports Af… — Oman · tree and pragmatics
description: In October 2004, the Omani government set up a Ministry of Sports Affairs to replace the General Organisation for Youth, Sports and Cultural Affairs. Who acts: Omani government. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Oman» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Oman, sentence 598

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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 October 2004, the Omani government set up a Ministry of Sports Affairs to replace the General Organisation for Youth, Sports and Cultural Affairs.

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**Who acts:** Omani government · **What happens:** set up, replace · **To what, where:** Ministry, Organisation

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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 (Omani government), 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:598
# text = In October 2004, the Omani government set up a Ministry of Sports Affairs to replace the General Organisation for Youth, Sports and Cultural Affairs.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	October	October	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
3	2004	2004	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	Omani	Omani	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	set	set	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	up	up	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	Ministry	Ministry	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	Sports	Sport	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	14	compound	_	_
14	Affairs	affair	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	replace	replace	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	advcl	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	General	General	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod:desc	_	_
19	Organisation	Organisation	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
20	for	for	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	Youth	Youth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	Sports	sport	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	conj	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	Cultural	cultural	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	Affairs	affair	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **set up** | past | the Omani government | a Ministry of Sports Affairs |  |  | october |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient ministry=Result |
| 2 | **replace** | to-infinitive | the Omani government *not said here* | the Organisation  General and Sports and Cultural Affairs |  |  |  | for Youth | vn substitute-13.6.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme organisation=Co-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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