Cairo, sentence 15
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 Cairo Metro, opened in 1987, is the oldest metro system in Africa, and ranks amongst the fifteen busiest in the world, with over 1 billion annual passenger rides.
Who acts: Cairo Metro, billion annual passenger · What happens: open, be, rank, ride · To what, where: Cairo Metro, 1987, oldest metro system, Africa
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 Metro, billion annual passenger), 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 | 3 Metro | det |
| 2 | Cairo | Cairo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Metro | compound |
| 3 | Metro | Metro | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 system | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Metro | punct |
| 5 | opened | open | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 Metro | acl |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 1987 | case |
| 7 | 1987 | 1987 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 opened | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Metro | punct |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 system | cop |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 system | det |
| 11 | oldest | old | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 13 system | amod |
| 12 | metro | metro | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 system | compound |
| 13 | system | system | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 Africa | case |
| 15 | Africa | Africa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 system | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 ranks | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 ranks | cc |
| 18 | ranks | rank | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 system | parataxis |
| 19 | amongst | amongst | ADP | _ | 22 busiest | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 busiest | det |
| 21 | fifteen | fifteen | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 busiest | nsubj |
| 22 | busiest | busy | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 18 ranks | obl |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 world | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 world | det |
| 25 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 busiest | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 rides | punct |
| 27 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 33 rides | mark |
| 28 | over | over | ADV | _ | 30 billion | advmod |
| 29 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 30 billion | compound |
| 30 | billion | billion | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 32 passenger | nummod |
| 31 | annual | annual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 passenger | amod |
| 32 | passenger | passenger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 rides | nsubj |
| 33 | rides | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 ranks | conj |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 system | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | open | participle | the Cairo Metro not said here | 1987 | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in 1987=Location | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | the Cairo Metro | the oldest metro system | Africa | tree rules | |||
| 3 | rank | present | amongst the busiest in the world | vn masquerade-29.6 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | ride | present | billion annual passenger | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent 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.
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