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title: In the following days, Tahrir Square continued to be the primary des… — Cairo · tree and pragmatics
description: In the following days, Tahrir Square continued to be the primary destination for protests in Cairo. Who acts: Tahrir. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Cairo» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Cairo, sentence 181

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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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In the following days, Tahrir Square continued to be the primary destination for protests in Cairo.

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**Who acts:** Tahrir · **What happens:** follow, continue, be · **To what, where:** primary destination

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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 (Tahrir), 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:181
# text = In the following days, Tahrir Square continued to be the primary destination for protests in Cairo.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	following	follow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	amod	_	_
4	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	Tahrir	Tahrir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
7	Square	Square	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	_
8	continued	continue	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
10	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	cop	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	primary	primary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	destination	destination	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	ccomp	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	protests	protest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	Cairo	Cairo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **follow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **continue** | past | Tahrir |  |  |  | day |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is a** | to-infinitive | Tahrir *not said here* | the primary destination |  |  |  | for protests in Cairo | tree rules |

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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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