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title: Al Ahly is the most successful club of the 20th century in the Afric… — Egypt · tree and pragmatics
description: Al Ahly is the most successful club of the 20th century in the African continent according to CAF, closely followed by their rivals Zamalek SC. They are known as the "African Club of the Century". Who acts: Al, rivals. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Egypt» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Egypt, sentence 704

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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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Al Ahly is the most successful club of the 20th century in the African continent according to CAF, closely followed by their rivals Zamalek SC. They are known as the "African Club of the Century".

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**Who acts:** Al, rivals · **What happens:** be, accord, follow, know · **To what, where:** successful club, beverages

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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 (Al, rivals), 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:704
# text = Al Ahly is the most successful club of the 20th century in the African continent according to CAF, closely followed by their rivals Zamalek SC. They are known as the "African Club of the Century".
1	Al	Al	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
2	Ahly	Ahly	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	6	advmod	_	_
6	successful	successful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	club	club	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	20th	20th	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Ord	11	amod	_	_
11	century	century	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	African	African	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	continent	continent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
16	according	accord	VERB	VBG	ExtPos=ADP|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	case	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	fixed	_	_
18	CAF	CAF	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	closely	closely	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	followed	follow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	parataxis	_	_
22	by	by	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	rivals	rival	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	_
25	Zamalek	Zamalek	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	SC.	sc.	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	_
27	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj:pass	_	_
28	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux:pass	_	_
29	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	acl:relcl	_	_
30	as	as	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
32	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	34	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	African	African	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	Club	Club	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	Century	Century	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	34	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Al | the successful club |  |  | century | accord CAF | tree rules |
| 2 | **accord** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **follow** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | by beverages's rivals and Zamalek SC.; closely *property* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by rival=Location |
| 4 | **know** | present · passive | beverages's rivals and Zamalek SC. *not said here* | beverages *= beverage* |  |  |  | as the African Club of the Century | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus as club=Attribute |

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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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