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title: The centralisation of power and focus on military and economic moder… — Egypt · tree and pragmatics
description: The centralisation of power and focus on military and economic modernisation laid the foundation for Egypt's transformation into a regional power. Who acts: centralisation, Egypt. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Egypt» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Egypt, sentence 108

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From Wikipedia, [«Egypt»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egypt), 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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The centralisation of power and focus on military and economic modernisation laid the foundation for Egypt's transformation into a regional power.

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**Who acts:** centralisation, Egypt · **What happens:** lay, centralise, transform · **To what, where:** foundation, regional power, power, military modernisation

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Egypt». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (centralisation, Egypt), 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:Egypt:108
# text = The centralisation of power and focus on military and economic modernisation laid the foundation for Egypt's transformation into a regional power.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	centralisation	centralisation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	focus	focus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	military	military	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	economic	economic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	conj	_	_
11	modernisation	modernisation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
12	laid	lay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	foundation	foundation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	Egypt	Egypt	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	's	's	PART	POS	_	16	case	_	_
18	transformation	transformation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
19	into	into	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	regional	regional	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lay** | past | the centralisation of power on military modernisation and focus | the foundation |  | a regional power |  | for Egypt's transformation | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent foundation=Result for transformation=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **centralise** |  |  | power |  | military modernisation |  |  | nom centralisation «act transitive»: of=patient on=place |
| 3 | **transform** |  | Egypt |  |  |  |  |  | nom transformation «event transitive»: poss=agent |

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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, «Egypt», 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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