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title: Many of the Omani Azd who settled in Basra became wealthy merchants… — Oman · tree and pragmatics
description: Many of the Omani Azd who settled in Basra became wealthy merchants and, under their leader al-Muhallab ibn Abi Sufra, started to expand their influence of power eastwards towards Khorasan. Who acts: Many, Basra. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Oman» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Oman, sentence 83

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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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Many of the Omani Azd who settled in Basra became wealthy merchants and, under their leader al-Muhallab ibn Abi Sufra, started to expand their influence of power eastwards towards Khorasan.

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**Who acts:** Many, Basra · **What happens:** settle, become, start, expand · **To what, where:** wealthy merchants, leader, influence

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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 (Many, Basra), 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:83
# text = Many of the Omani Azd who settled in Basra became wealthy merchants and, under their leader al-Muhallab ibn Abi Sufra, started to expand their influence of power eastwards towards Khorasan.
1	Many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	nsubj	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	Omani	Omani	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	Azd	Azd	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
6	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
7	settled	settle	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Basra	Basra	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	ccomp	_	_
11	wealthy	wealthy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	merchants	merchant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	xcomp	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
15	under	under	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	leader	leader	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
18	al	Al	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	Muhallab	Muhallab	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	flat	_	_
21	ibn	Ibn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	flat	_	_
22	Abi	Abi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	flat	_	_
23	Sufra	Sufra	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
25	started	start	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	expand	expand	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	xcomp	_	_
28	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	influence	influence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
32	eastwards	eastward	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nmod	_	_
33	towards	towards	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	Khorasan	Khorasan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **settle** | past | Many of the Omani Azd |  |  |  |  | who *nsubj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **become** | past | Basra | wealthy merchants |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **start** | past | Many of the Omani Azd *not said here* |  |  | Omanis's leader |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **expand** | to-infinitive | Many of the Omani Azd *not said here* | Omanis's influence of power eastwards |  |  |  | towards Khorasan | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent influence=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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