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title: Despite waves of privatisation and fiscal reforms, the government re… — Egypt · tree and pragmatics
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# Egypt, sentence 329

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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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Despite waves of privatisation and fiscal reforms, the government remains one of the country's largest employers, and state contracts continue to stimulate activity in other sectors of the still partly socialised economy.

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**Who acts:** government, state contracts · **What happens:** remain, continue, stimulate, socialis, wave · **To what, where:** one, activity, other sectors, privatisation

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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 (government, state contracts), 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:329
# text = Despite waves of privatisation and fiscal reforms, the government remains one of the country's largest employers, and state contracts continue to stimulate activity in other sectors of the still partly socialised economy.
1	Despite	despite	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	waves	wave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	privatisation	privatisation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	fiscal	fiscal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	reforms	reform	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	remains	remain	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	obj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	's	's	PART	POS	_	15	case	_	_
17	largest	large	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	18	amod	_	_
18	employers	employer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	state	state	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	contracts	contract	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
23	continue	continue	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	stimulate	stimulate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	xcomp	_	_
26	activity	activity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	sectors	sector	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
32	still	still	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
33	partly	partly	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
34	socialised	socialis	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	35	amod	_	_
35	economy	economy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **remain** | present | the government | one of the country's largest employers |  |  |  | despite waves of privatisation and fiscal reforms | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme one=Attribute |
| 2 | **continue** | present | state contracts |  |  |  |  |  | vn continue-55.3 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **stimulate** | to-infinitive | state contracts *not said here* | activity |  | other sectors of the socialised economy |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus activity=Experiencer |
| 4 | **socialis** | participle |  |  |  |  | still | partly *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **wave** |  |  | privatisation |  |  |  |  | nom wave «event transitive»: of=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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