Cairo, sentence 153
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.
A committee of teachers chose to preserve a single one of the canonical qira'at "readings", namely that of the "Ḥafṣ" version, an 8th-century Kufic recitation.
Who acts: committee · What happens: choose, preserve · To what, where: single one
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 (committee), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 committee | det |
| 2 | committee | committee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 chose | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 teachers | case |
| 4 | teachers | teacher | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 committee | nmod |
| 5 | chose | choose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 preserve | mark |
| 7 | preserve | preserve | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 chose | xcomp |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 one | det |
| 9 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 one | amod |
| 10 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 preserve | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 qira'at | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 qira'at | det |
| 13 | canonical | canonical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 qira'at | amod |
| 14 | qira'at | qira'at | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 one | nmod |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 readings | punct |
| 16 | readings | reading | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 qira'at | appos |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 readings | punct |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 namely | punct |
| 19 | namely | namely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 qira'at | parataxis |
| 20 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 33 recitation | mark |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 version | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 version | det |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 Ḥafṣ | punct |
| 24 | Ḥafṣ | Ḥafṣ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 version | compound |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 Ḥafṣ | punct |
| 26 | version | version | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 recitation | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 version | punct |
| 28 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 century | det |
| 29 | 8th | 8th | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Combi NumType=Ord | 31 century | compound |
| 30 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 29 8th | punct |
| 31 | century | century | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 recitation | compound |
| 32 | Kufic | Kufic | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 century | appos |
| 33 | recitation | recitation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 namely | advcl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 chose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | choose | past | a committee of teachers | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | preserve | to-infinitive | a committee of teachers not said here | a single one of the canonical qira'at | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Beneficiary |
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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