Cairo, sentence 145
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.
In 1906, the Heliopolis Oasis Company headed by the Belgian industrialist Édouard Empain and his Egyptian counterpart Boghos Nubar, built a suburb called Heliopolis (city of the sun in Greek) ten kilometres from the centre of Cairo.
Who acts: Heliopolis Oasis Company, Egyptian counterpart · What happens: head, build, call · To what, where: 1906, suburb, centre · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Heliopolis Oasis Company, Egyptian counterpart), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 1906 | case |
| 2 | 1906 | 1906 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 headed | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 1906 | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Company | det |
| 5 | Heliopolis | Heliopolis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Company | compound |
| 6 | Oasis | Oasis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Company | compound |
| 7 | Company | Company | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 headed | nsubj |
| 8 | headed | head | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 industrialist | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 industrialist | det |
| 11 | Belgian | Belgian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 industrialist | amod |
| 12 | industrialist | industrialist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 headed | obl |
| 13 | Édouard | Édouard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 industrialist | appos |
| 14 | Empain | Empain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Édouard | flat |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 built | cc |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 counterpart | nmod:poss |
| 17 | Egyptian | Egyptian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 counterpart | amod |
| 18 | counterpart | counterpart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 built | nsubj |
| 19 | Boghos | Boghos | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 counterpart | appos |
| 20 | Nubar | Nubar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Boghos | flat |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 counterpart | punct |
| 22 | built | build | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 headed | conj |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 suburb | det |
| 24 | suburb | suburb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 built | obj |
| 25 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 suburb | acl |
| 26 | Heliopolis | Heliopolis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 called | xcomp |
| 27 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 28 city | punct |
| 28 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 suburb | appos |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 sun | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 sun | det |
| 31 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 city | nmod |
| 32 | in | in | ADP | _ | 33 Greek | case |
| 33 | Greek | Greek | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 sun | nmod |
| 34 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 28 city | punct |
| 35 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 36 kilometres | nummod |
| 36 | kilometres | kilometre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 built | obl:unmarked |
| 37 | from | from | ADP | _ | 39 centre | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 centre | det |
| 39 | centre | centre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 built | obl |
| 40 | of | of | ADP | _ | 41 Cairo | case |
| 41 | Cairo | Cairo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 centre | nmod |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 headed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | head | past | the Heliopolis Oasis Company | 1906 | by the Belgian industrialist | vn conduct-111.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | build | past | Company's Egyptian counterpart | a suburb | the centre of Cairo | ten kilometres obl:unmarked | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: agent=Asset suburb=Product from centre=Material | ||
| 3 | call | participle | a suburb not said here | Heliopolis xcomp | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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.
Text: the English Wikipedia, «Cairo», 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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