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title: They appear to have readily embraced Islam. — Oman · tree and pragmatics
description: They appear to have readily embraced Islam. Who acts: sons. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Oman» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Oman, sentence 75

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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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They appear to have readily embraced Islam.

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**Who acts:** sons · **What happens:** appear, embrace · **To what, where:** Islam

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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 (sons), 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:75
# text = They appear to have readily embraced Islam.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	appear	appear	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
4	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	aux	_	_
5	readily	readily	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	embraced	embrace	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	ccomp	_	_
7	Islam	Islam	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **appear** | present | sons *= son* |  |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 2 | **embrace** | to-infinitive · perfect | sons *= son* *not said here* | Islam |  |  |  | readily *property* | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent islam=Co-Agent |

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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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