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title: Saad Zaghloul and the Wafd Party secured popular support, but the Br… — Egypt · tree and pragmatics
description: Saad Zaghloul and the Wafd Party secured popular support, but the British exiled Zaghloul and his colleagues to Malta on 8 March 1919, prompting the first modern revolution. Who acts: Saad, British. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Egypt» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Egypt, sentence 119

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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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Saad Zaghloul and the Wafd Party secured popular support, but the British exiled Zaghloul and his colleagues to Malta on 8 March 1919, prompting the first modern revolution.

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**Who acts:** Saad, British · **What happens:** secure, exile, prompt · **To what, where:** popular support, Zaghloul, Malta, 8, first modern revolution

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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 (Saad, British), 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:119
# text = Saad Zaghloul and the Wafd Party secured popular support, but the British exiled Zaghloul and his colleagues to Malta on 8 March 1919, prompting the first modern revolution.
1	Saad	Saad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
2	Zaghloul	Zaghloul	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	Wafd	Wafd	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	Party	Party	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
7	secured	secure	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	popular	popular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	support	support	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	British	British	PROPN	NNP	_	14	nsubj	_	_
14	exiled	exile	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
15	Zaghloul	Zaghloul	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	colleagues	colleague	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	Malta	Malta	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
21	on	on	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	8	8	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	14	obl	_	_
23	March	March	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nmod:unmarked	_	_
24	1919	1919	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	22	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	prompting	prompt	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
28	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	30	amod	_	_
29	modern	modern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	revolution	revolution	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **secure** | past | Saad and the Wafd Party | popular support |  |  |  |  | vn ensure-99 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition support=Theme |
| 2 | **exile** | past | the British | Zaghloul and British's colleagues | Malta | 8  March |  |  | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent zaghloul=Theme to malta=Destination |
| 3 | **prompt** | gerund | the British *not said here* | the first modern revolution |  |  |  |  | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition revolution=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, «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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