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title: A committee of teachers chose to preserve a single one of the canoni… — Cairo · tree and pragmatics
description: A committee of teachers chose to preserve a single one of the canonical qira'at "readings", namely that of the "Ḥafṣ" version, an 8th-century Kufic recitation. Who acts: committee. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Cairo» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Cairo, sentence 153

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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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A committee of teachers chose to preserve a single one of the canonical qira'at "readings", namely that of the "Ḥafṣ" version, an 8th-century Kufic recitation.

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**Who acts:** committee · **What happens:** choose, preserve · **To what, where:** single one

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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 (committee), 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:153
# text = A committee of teachers chose to preserve a single one of the canonical qira'at "readings", namely that of the "Ḥafṣ" version, an 8th-century Kufic recitation.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	committee	committee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	teachers	teacher	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
5	chose	choose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	preserve	preserve	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	single	single	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	canonical	canonical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	qira'at	qira'at	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
15	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	readings	reading	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	namely	namely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	parataxis	_	_
20	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
23	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	Ḥafṣ	Ḥafṣ	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	24	punct	_	_
26	version	version	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
28	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
29	8th	8th	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Ord	31	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	century	century	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
32	Kufic	Kufic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	appos	_	_
33	recitation	recitation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **choose** | past | a committee of teachers |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **preserve** | to-infinitive | a committee of teachers *not said here* | a single one of the canonical qira'at |  |  |  |  | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Beneficiary |

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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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