--- title: These groups initially supported Imam Ali during the First Fitna but… — Oman · tree and pragmatics description: These groups initially supported Imam Ali during the First Fitna but turned away after rejecting arbitration at the Battle of Siffin in AD 657. around the year 650; the Omani Azd in Iraq would subsequently adopt this as their predominant faith. Who acts: groups, Omani Azd. 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These groups initially supported Imam Ali during the First Fitna but turned away after rejecting arbitration at the Battle of Siffin in AD 657. around the year 650; the Omani Azd in Iraq would subsequently adopt this as their predominant faith. **Who acts:** groups, Omani Azd · **What happens:** support, turn away, reject, adopt · **To what, where:** Imam Ali, arbitration, Battle, this 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 (groups, Omani Azd), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:85 # text = These groups initially supported Imam Ali during the First Fitna but turned away after rejecting arbitration at the Battle of Siffin in AD 657. around the year 650; the Omani Azd in Iraq would subsequently adopt this as their predominant faith. 1 These this DET DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 2 det _ _ 2 groups group NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 3 initially initially ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 supported support VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 Imam Imam PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 Ali Ali PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 during during ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 First first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 10 amod _ _ 10 Fitna Fitna PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 11 but but CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 turned turn VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 13 away away ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 14 after after SCONJ IN _ 15 mark _ _ 15 rejecting reject VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 12 advcl _ _ 16 arbitration arbitration NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 17 at at ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 Battle Battle PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 20 of of ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 Siffin Siffin PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 nmod _ _ 22 in in ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 AD ad NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 24 657 657 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 23 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 25 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ 26 around around ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 29 650 650 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 28 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 30 ; ; PUNCT : _ 38 punct _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 32 Omani Omani PROPN NNP Number=Sing 33 compound _ _ 33 Azd Azd PROPN NNP Number=Sing 38 nsubj _ _ 34 in in ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 Iraq Iraq PROPN NNP Number=Sing 33 nmod _ _ 36 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 38 aux _ _ 37 subsequently subsequently ADV RB _ 38 advmod _ _ 38 adopt adopt VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 conj _ _ 39 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 38 obj _ _ 40 as as ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 41 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 43 nmod:poss _ _ 42 predominant predominant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 43 amod _ _ 43 faith faith NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **support** | past | this groups | Imam Ali | | | during the First Fitna; year | initially *property* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ali=Stimulus | | 2 | **turn away** | past | this groups *not said here* | | | | | away *property* | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **reject** | gerund | this groups *not said here* | arbitration | | the Battle of Siffin | | in AD | vn reject-77.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arbitration=Theme | | 4 | **adopt** | would | the Omani Azd in Iraq | this | | | | as groups's predominant faith; subsequently *property* | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent this=Theme as faith=Attribute | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 84](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Oman/84/) - next →: [sentence 86](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Oman/86/) - ↑ back to [Oman](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Oman/)