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explanatory information about the model, the six post-graduate
informants set out on their analyses. At the end of the first session,
papers were collected.
DATA ANALYSIS
a) Five informants agreed that the opening sentence of the text
constitutes the first obligatory control centre (0MCC1). It is a
topical sentence which sheds sufficient light on a unique aspect of
the character of Ibn Saud: "It was the custom of Ibn Saud to do
all the work in public".
b) One informant regarded that the first sentence in the 2nd paragraph
constitutes the first OMCC on the assumption that it rounds up the
responsibilities /bn Saud had to shoulder: "AI/ manner of cases
came before him, quarrels over wells or rights of pasturage,
disputes over land boundaries, irrigation channels, ownership of
camels; claims for looting, theft, damage or injury done in a fight
or brawl, complaints of every description".
c) All informants agreed that the stories ennumerated on pages83-84
are extensions of the obligatory meaning expressed either in the
opening sentence of the text or the opening sentence of the 2nd
paragraph.
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