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title: The majority are Islamic and typically feature dhikr, the ritual cha… — Egypt · tree and pragmatics
description: The majority are Islamic and typically feature dhikr, the ritual chanting and recitation of prayers, as well as performances by Sufi groups, including music and spiritual gatherings. Who acts: majority, Sufi groups. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Egypt» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Egypt, sentence 678

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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 majority are Islamic and typically feature dhikr, the ritual chanting and recitation of prayers, as well as performances by Sufi groups, including music and spiritual gatherings.

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**Who acts:** majority, Sufi groups · **What happens:** be, feature, chant, perform · **To what, where:** dhikr, prayers

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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 (majority, Sufi groups), 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:678
# text = The majority are Islamic and typically feature dhikr, the ritual chanting and recitation of prayers, as well as performances by Sufi groups, including music and spiritual gatherings.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	majority	majority	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	Islamic	Islamic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	typically	typically	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	feature	feature	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
8	dhikr	dhikr	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	ritual	ritual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	chanting	chanting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	recitation	recitation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	prayers	prayer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	as	as	ADV	RB	ExtPos=CCONJ	21	cc	_	_
19	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	18	fixed	_	_
20	as	as	ADP	IN	_	18	fixed	_	_
21	performances	performance	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	_
22	by	by	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	Sufi	sufi	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	groups	group	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	including	including	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	music	music	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
29	spiritual	spiritual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	gatherings	gathering	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the majority |  |  |  |  | islamic *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **feature** | infinitive | the majority *not said here* | dhikr |  |  |  | typically *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **chant** |  |  | prayers  performances by Sufi groups and music and spiritual gatherings |  |  |  |  | nom chanting «act transitive»: of=patient |
| 4 | **perform** |  | Sufi groups |  |  |  |  |  | nom performance «communication transitive»: by=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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