Cairo, sentence 200
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 areas, which are home to most of Cairo's embassies, are surrounded on the north, east, and south by the older parts of the city.
Who acts: areas, north · What happens: be, surround · To what, where: 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 (areas, north), 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 areas | det |
| 2 | areas | area | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 surrounded | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 embassies | punct |
| 4 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 embassies | nsubj |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 embassies | cop |
| 6 | home | home | ADV | _ | 12 embassies | advmod |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 embassies | case |
| 8 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 12 embassies | amod |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 embassies | case |
| 10 | Cairo | Cairo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 embassies | nmod:poss |
| 11 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 10 Cairo | case |
| 12 | embassies | embassy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 areas | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 areas | punct |
| 14 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 surrounded | aux:pass |
| 15 | surrounded | surround | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 north | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 north | det |
| 18 | north | north | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 surrounded | obl:agent |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 east | punct |
| 20 | east | east | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 north | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 south | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 south | cc |
| 23 | south | south | ADV | _ | 15 surrounded | advmod |
| 24 | by | by | ADP | _ | 27 parts | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 parts | det |
| 26 | older | old | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 27 parts | amod |
| 27 | parts | part | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 surrounded | obl |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 city | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 city | det |
| 30 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 parts | nmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 surrounded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the areas and Cairo's most embassies | to Cairo's most embassies; Cairo nmod:poss; home property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | surround | present · passive | the north and east | the areas and Cairo's most embassies | by the older parts of the city; south property | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme subject=Co-Theme |
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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