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title: The term originally connoted "Civilisation" or "Metropolis". — Egypt · tree and pragmatics
description: The term originally connoted "Civilisation" or "Metropolis". Who acts: term. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Egypt» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Egypt, sentence 45

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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 term originally connoted "Civilisation" or "Metropolis".

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**Who acts:** term · **What happens:** connote · **To what, where:** Civilisation, term

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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 (term), 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:45
# text = The term originally connoted "Civilisation" or "Metropolis".
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	term	term	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	originally	originally	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	connoted	connote	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
5	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	Civilisation	civilisation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
8	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	Metropolis	Metropolis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **connote** | participle | the term *not said here* | Civilisation or Metropolis |  |  |  | originally *property* | 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, «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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