Cairo, sentence 108

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.

Although Cairo avoided Europe's stagnation during the Late Middle Ages, it could not escape the Black Death, which struck the city more than fifty times between 1348 and 1517.

Who acts: Cairo, stagnation, Black Death, Europe · What happens: avoid, not escape, strike, stagnate · To what, where: stagnation, Black Death, city

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 (Cairo, stagnation, Black Death, Europe), 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	Although	although	SCONJ	_	3 avoided	mark
2	Cairo	Cairo	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 avoided	nsubj
3	avoided	avoid	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 escape	advcl
4	Europe	Europe	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 stagnation	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 Europe	case
6	stagnation	stagnation	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 avoided	obj
7	during	during	ADP	_	11 Ages	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Ages	det
9	Late	late	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 Ages	amod
10	Middle	Middle	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Ages	flat
11	Ages	Age	PROPN	Number=Plur	3 avoided	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 avoided	punct
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 escape	nsubj
14	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 escape	aux
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 escape	advmod
16	escape	escape	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 Death	det
18	Black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 Death	amod
19	Death	Death	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 escape	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 struck	punct
21	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 struck	nsubj
22	struck	strike	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 Death	acl:relcl
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 city	det
24	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 struck	obj
25	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	27 fifty	advmod
26	than	than	ADP	_	25 more	fixed
27	fifty	fifty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	28 times	nummod
28	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 struck	obl:unmarked
29	between	between	ADP	_	30 1348	case
30	1348	1348	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	22 struck	obl
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 1517	cc
32	1517	1517	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	30 1348	conj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 escape	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	avoid	past	Cairo	Europe's stagnation	during the Late Middle Ages		vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent stagnation=Location
2	not escape	could	stagnation	the Black Death			vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme death=Initial_Location
3	strike	past	the Black Death	the city	time	between 1348	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent city=Patient
4	stagnate		Europe				nom stagnation «state transitive»: poss=agent

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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Cairo, sentence 108