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title: Continued civil war allowed an Albanian named Muhammad Ali Pasha to… — Cairo · tree and pragmatics
description: Continued civil war allowed an Albanian named Muhammad Ali Pasha to ascend to the role of commander and eventually, with the approval of the religious establishment, viceroy of Egypt in 1805. Who acts: Continued civil war. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Cairo» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Cairo, sentence 136

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From Wikipedia, [«Cairo»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cairo), 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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Continued civil war allowed an Albanian named Muhammad Ali Pasha to ascend to the role of commander and eventually, with the approval of the religious establishment, viceroy of Egypt in 1805.

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**Who acts:** Continued civil war · **What happens:** continue, allow, name, ascend, approve · **To what, where:** an, 1805, religious establishment

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Cairo». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Continued civil war), 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:Cairo:136
# text = Continued civil war allowed an Albanian named Muhammad Ali Pasha to ascend to the role of commander and eventually, with the approval of the religious establishment, viceroy of Egypt in 1805.
1	Continued	continue	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	amod	_	_
2	civil	civil	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	allowed	allow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	obj	_	_
6	Albanian	Albanian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
7	named	name	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
8	Muhammad	Muhammad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	Ali	Ali	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	xcomp	_	_
10	Pasha	Pasha	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	flat	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	ascend	ascend	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	advcl	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	role	role	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	commander	commander	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	eventually	eventually	ADV	RB	_	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	with	with	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	approval	approval	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	religious	religious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	establishment	establishment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
29	viceroy	viceroy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	Egypt	Egypt	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	_
32	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	1805	1805	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **continue** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **allow** | past | Continued civil war | an |  |  |  |  | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent a=Beneficiary |
| 3 | **name** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | Muhammad Ali *xcomp* | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **ascend** | to-infinitive |  |  |  | 1805 |  | to the role of commander; with the approval of the religious establishment and viceroy of Egypt | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to role=Initial\_Location |
| 5 | **approve** |  |  | the religious establishment |  |  |  |  | nom approval «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, «Cairo», 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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