Cairo, sentence 105
From Wikipedia, «Cairo», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.
When the traveller Ibn Battuta first came to Cairo in 1326, he described it as the principal district of Egypt.
Who acts: traveller Ibn, ibn · What happens: come, describe · To what, where: Cairo, 1326, harat
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Cairo». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (traveller Ibn, ibn), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 came | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Ibn | det |
| 3 | traveller | Traveller | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Ibn | compound |
| 4 | Ibn | Ibn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 came | nsubj |
| 5 | Battuta | Battuta | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Ibn | flat |
| 6 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 7 came | advmod |
| 7 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 described | advcl |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 Cairo | case |
| 9 | Cairo | Cairo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 came | obl |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 1326 | case |
| 11 | 1326 | 1326 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 came | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 came | punct |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 described | nsubj |
| 14 | described | describe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 described | obj |
| 16 | as | as | ADP | _ | 19 district | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 district | det |
| 18 | principal | principal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 district | amod |
| 19 | district | district | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 described | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 Egypt | case |
| 21 | Egypt | Egypt | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 district | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 described | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the traveller Ibn | Cairo | 1326 | first property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to cairo=Initial_Location | ||
| 2 | describe | past | ibn | harat | as the principal district of Egypt | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent it=Theme as district=Attribute |
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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