Cairo, sentence 399

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 Geniza is an accumulation of almost 200,000 Jewish manuscripts that were found in the genizah of the Ben Ezra Synagogue (built 882) of Fustat, Egypt (now Old Cairo), the Basatin cemetery east of Old Cairo, and a number of old documents that were bought in Cairo in the later 19th century.

Who acts: Cairo Geniza, Ezra Synagogue · What happens: be, find, build, buy · To what, where: accumulation, 200,000 Jewish manuscripts, genizah, 882, old documents, Cairo

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 Geniza, Ezra Synagogue), 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 Geniza	det
2	Cairo	Cairo	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Geniza	compound
3	Geniza	Geniza	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 accumulation	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 accumulation	cop
5	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 accumulation	det
6	accumulation	accumulation	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	11 manuscripts	case
8	almost	almost	ADV	_	9 200,000	advmod
9	200,000	200000	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	11 manuscripts	nummod
10	Jewish	Jewish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 manuscripts	amod
11	manuscripts	manuscript	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 accumulation	nmod
12	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 found	nsubj:pass
13	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 found	aux:pass
14	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 manuscripts	acl:relcl
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 genizah	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 genizah	det
17	genizah	genizah	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 found	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	22 Synagogue	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 Synagogue	det
20	Ben	Ben	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 Ezra	compound
21	Ezra	Ezra	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 Synagogue	compound
22	Synagogue	Synagogue	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 genizah	nmod
23	(	(	PUNCT	_	24 built	punct
24	built	build	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 Synagogue	acl
25	882	882	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	24 built	obj
26	)	)	PUNCT	_	24 built	punct
27	of	of	ADP	_	28 Fustat	case
28	Fustat	Fustat	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 built	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 Egypt	punct
30	Egypt	Egypt	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 Fustat	conj
31	(	(	PUNCT	_	34 Cairo	punct
32	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	34 Cairo	advmod
33	Old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 Cairo	amod
34	Cairo	Cairo	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 Egypt	appos
35	)	)	PUNCT	_	34 Cairo	punct
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 east	punct
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 east	det
38	Basatin	Basatin	PROPN	Number=Sing	40 east	compound
39	cemetery	cemetery	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 east	compound
40	east	east	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 Fustat	appos
41	of	of	ADP	_	43 Cairo	case
42	Old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 Cairo	amod
43	Cairo	Cairo	PROPN	Number=Sing	40 east	nmod
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 number	punct
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 number	cc
46	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	47 number	det
47	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 accumulation	conj
48	of	of	ADP	_	50 documents	case
49	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	50 documents	amod
50	documents	document	NOUN	Number=Plur	47 number	nmod
51	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	53 bought	nsubj:pass
52	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	53 bought	aux:pass
53	bought	buy	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	50 documents	acl:relcl
54	in	in	ADP	_	55 Cairo	case
55	Cairo	Cairo	PROPN	Number=Sing	53 bought	obl
56	in	in	ADP	_	60 century	case
57	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	60 century	det
58	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	59 19th	advmod
59	19th	19th	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Combi NumType=Ord	60 century	amod
60	century	century	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 bought	obl
61	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 accumulation	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the Cairo Geniza	a accumulation and a number of old documents			of 200,000 Jewish manuscripts; a number of old documents conj	tree rules
2	find	past · passive		200,000 Jewish manuscripts	the genizah of the Ezra Synagogue			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic
3	build	participle	the Ezra Synagogue not said here	882			of Fustat and Egypt	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset 882=Product
4	buy	past · passive		old documents	Cairo	century		vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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Cairo, sentence 399