Cairo, sentence 381
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.
Cairo is served by its "white taxis" which were introduced in the early 2010s and aren't run by a company, but rather by individuals.
Who acts: individuals, company · What happens: serve, introduce, not run · To what, where: Cairo, white taxis, early 2010s
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 (individuals, company), 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 | Cairo | Cairo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 served | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 served | aux:pass |
| 3 | served | serve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 taxis | case |
| 5 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 taxis | nmod:poss |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 taxis | punct |
| 7 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 taxis | amod |
| 8 | taxis | taxi | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 served | obl |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 taxis | punct |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 introduced | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 introduced | aux:pass |
| 12 | introduced | introduce | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 taxis | parataxis |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 2010s | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 2010s | det |
| 15 | early | early | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 2010s | amod |
| 16 | 2010s | 2010 | NOUN | Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card | 12 introduced | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 run | cc |
| 18 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 run | aux:pass |
| 19 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 run | advmod |
| 20 | run | run | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 introduced | conj |
| 21 | by | by | ADP | _ | 23 company | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 company | det |
| 23 | company | company | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 run | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 individuals | punct |
| 25 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 28 individuals | cc |
| 26 | rather | rather | ADV | _ | 28 individuals | advmod |
| 27 | by | by | ADP | _ | 28 individuals | case |
| 28 | individuals | individual | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 served | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 served | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | serve | present · passive | individuals | Cairo | by control's white taxis | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Attribute | |||
| 2 | introduce | past · passive | control's white taxis | the early 2010s | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 3 | not run | present · passive | a company | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=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.
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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