Cairo, sentence 143
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.
The city's economic centre quickly moved west toward the Nile, away from the historic Islamic Cairo section and toward the contemporary, European-style areas built by Isma'il.
Who acts: economic centre · What happens: move, build · To what, where: Nile, contemporary style areas
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 (economic centre), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 city | det |
| 2 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 centre | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 city | case |
| 4 | economic | economic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 centre | amod |
| 5 | centre | centre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 moved | nsubj |
| 6 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 7 moved | advmod |
| 7 | moved | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | west | west | ADV | _ | 7 moved | advmod |
| 9 | toward | toward | ADP | _ | 11 Nile | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Nile | det |
| 11 | Nile | Nile | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 moved | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 away | punct |
| 13 | away | away | ADV | _ | 7 moved | advmod |
| 14 | from | from | ADP | _ | 19 section | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 section | det |
| 16 | historic | historic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 section | amod |
| 17 | Islamic | Islamic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 Cairo | amod |
| 18 | Cairo | Cairo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 section | compound |
| 19 | section | section | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 away | obl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 areas | cc |
| 21 | toward | toward | ADP | _ | 28 areas | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 areas | det |
| 23 | contemporary | contemporary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 areas | amod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 contemporary | punct |
| 25 | European | European | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 style | amod |
| 26 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 25 European | punct |
| 27 | style | style | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 areas | compound |
| 28 | areas | area | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 section | conj |
| 29 | built | build | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 areas | acl |
| 30 | by | by | ADP | _ | 31 Isma'il | case |
| 31 | Isma'il | Isma'il | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 built | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 moved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | move | past | the city's economic centre | the Nile | away, quickly, west property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme toward nile=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | build | participle | the contemporary style areas not said here | by Isma'il | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=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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