Cairo, sentence 197
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 low periods created another island at the turn of the 14th century that now composes Zamalek and Gezira.
Who acts: low periods, 14th century · What happens: create, compose · To what, where: island, turn, Zamalek
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 (low periods, 14th century), 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 periods | det |
| 2 | low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 periods | amod |
| 3 | periods | period | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 created | nsubj |
| 4 | created | create | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 island | det |
| 6 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 created | obj |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 turn | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 turn | det |
| 9 | turn | turn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 created | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 century | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 century | det |
| 12 | 14th | 14th | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Combi NumType=Ord | 13 century | amod |
| 13 | century | century | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 turn | nmod |
| 14 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 composes | nsubj |
| 15 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 composes | advmod |
| 16 | composes | compose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 century | acl:relcl |
| 17 | Zamalek | Zamalek | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 composes | obj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 Gezira | cc |
| 19 | Gezira | Gezira | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Zamalek | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 created | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | create | past | the low periods | another island | the turn of the 14th century | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent island=Result | |||
| 2 | compose | present | the 14th century | Zamalek and Gezira | now | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent zamalek=Result |
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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