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title: The exception to this is the northern part of the country, which, al… — Egypt · tree and pragmatics
description: The exception to this is the northern part of the country, which, although still hot, has its temperatures moderated by the cool Mediterranean winds consistently blowing in over the sea coast, especially at the height of summer. Who acts: exception, northern part. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Egypt» w
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# Egypt, sentence 228

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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 exception to this is the northern part of the country, which, although still hot, has its temperatures moderated by the cool Mediterranean winds consistently blowing in over the sea coast, especially at the height of summer.

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**Who acts:** exception, northern part · **What happens:** be, have, moderate, blow in · **To what, where:** northern part, temperatures, sea coast

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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 (exception, northern part), 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:228
# text = The exception to this is the northern part of the country, which, although still hot, has its temperatures moderated by the cool Mediterranean winds consistently blowing in over the sea coast, especially at the height of summer.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	exception	exception	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	nmod	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	northern	northern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	parataxis	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
13	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	although	although	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
16	still	still	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
19	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
20	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	temperatures	temperature	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
22	moderated	moderate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	acl	_	_
23	by	by	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	cool	cool	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	Mediterranean	Mediterranean	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
27	winds	wind	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
28	consistently	consistently	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	blowing	blow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
30	in	in	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
31	over	over	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	_
34	coast	coast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
36	especially	especially	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	_
37	at	at	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	height	height	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
40	of	of	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	29	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the exception to this | the northern part |  |  |  | of the country | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** | present | the northern part | country's temperatures |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent temperature=Patient |
| 3 | **moderate** | participle |  | country's temperatures *not said here* |  |  |  | by the cool Mediterranean | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **blow in** | present |  |  |  | the sea coast |  | at the height of summer; consistently *property* | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=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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