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title: Meat plays an important role in Egyptian cuisine, with poultry such… — Egypt · tree and pragmatics
description: Meat plays an important role in Egyptian cuisine, with poultry such as squab, chicken, duck, quail, and goose being common, alongside lamb and beef for grilling and stews. Who acts: Meat, goose. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Egypt» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Egypt, sentence 692

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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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Meat plays an important role in Egyptian cuisine, with poultry such as squab, chicken, duck, quail, and goose being common, alongside lamb and beef for grilling and stews.

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**Who acts:** Meat, goose · **What happens:** play, be · **To what, where:** important role, Egyptian cuisine

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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 (Meat, goose), 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:692
# text = Meat plays an important role in Egyptian cuisine, with poultry such as squab, chicken, duck, quail, and goose being common, alongside lamb and beef for grilling and stews.
1	Meat	meat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	plays	play	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	important	important	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	role	role	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	Egyptian	Egyptian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	cuisine	cuisine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	poultry	poultry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
12	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	14	case	_	_
13	as	as	ADP	IN	_	12	fixed	_	_
14	squab	squab	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	chicken	chicken	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	duck	duck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	quail	quail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
23	goose	goose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
24	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	25	cop	_	_
25	common	common	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	alongside	alongside	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	lamb	lamb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	beef	beef	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	conj	_	_
31	for	for	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	grilling	grilling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	stews	stew	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **play** | present | Meat | a important role |  | Egyptian cuisine |  | with poultry such squab and chicken | vn play-114.2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent role=Theme with poultry=Co-Agent |
| 2 | **is** | gerund | goose |  |  |  |  | alongside lamb for grilling and stews and beef *conj*; common *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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