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title: By this account, Malik, with an armed force of more than 6000 men an… — Oman · tree and pragmatics
description: By this account, Malik, with an armed force of more than 6000 men and horses, fought against the Marzban, who served an ambiguously named Persian king in the battle of Salut in Oman and eventually defeated the Persian forces. Who acts: Marzban. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Oman» with its dependency tr
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# Oman, sentence 70

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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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By this account, Malik, with an armed force of more than 6000 men and horses, fought against the Marzban, who served an ambiguously named Persian king in the battle of Salut in Oman and eventually defeated the Persian forces.

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**Who acts:** Marzban · **What happens:** fight, serve, name, defeat, battle · **To what, where:** named Persian king, battle, Persian forces, Salut

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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 (Marzban), 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:70
# text = By this account, Malik, with an armed force of more than 6000 men and horses, fought against the Marzban, who served an ambiguously named Persian king in the battle of Salut in Oman and eventually defeated the Persian forces.
1	By	by	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	account	account	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	Malik	Malik	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	armed	armed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	force	force	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
12	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV	14	advmod	_	_
13	than	than	ADP	IN	_	12	fixed	_	_
14	6000	6000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
15	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	horses	horse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
19	fought	fight	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
20	against	against	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	Marzban	Marzban	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj	_	_
25	served	serve	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	acl:relcl	_	_
26	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
27	ambiguously	ambiguously	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	named	name	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	30	amod	_	_
29	Persian	persian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	battle	battle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	Salut	Salut	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	_
36	in	in	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	Oman	Oman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
39	eventually	eventually	ADV	RB	_	40	advmod	_	_
40	defeated	defeat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	conj	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
42	Persian	persian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
43	forces	force	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fight** | past |  |  |  |  |  | by this account; against the Marzban | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **serve** | past | the Marzban | a named Persian king |  | the battle of Salut in Oman |  |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent king=Value in battle=Location |
| 3 | **name** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | ambiguously *property* | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **defeat** | past | the Marzban *not said here* | the Persian forces |  |  |  | eventually *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **battle** |  |  | Salut in Oman |  |  |  |  | nom battle «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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