Cairo, sentence 426
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.
Downtown Cairo is the heart of the city and was established during the reign of Isma'il Pasha of Egypt, coinciding with the occasion of the opening of the Suez Canal.
Who acts: Downtown Cairo, heart · What happens: be, establish, coincide, occasion · To what, where: heart, opening
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 (Downtown Cairo, heart), 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 | Downtown | Downtown | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Cairo | compound |
| 2 | Cairo | Cairo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 heart | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 heart | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 heart | det |
| 5 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 city | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 city | det |
| 8 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 heart | nmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 established | cc |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 established | aux:pass |
| 11 | established | establish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 city | conj |
| 12 | during | during | ADP | _ | 14 reign | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 reign | det |
| 14 | reign | reign | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 established | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 Pasha | case |
| 16 | Isma'il | Isma'il | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Pasha | compound |
| 17 | Pasha | Pasha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 reign | nmod |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 Egypt | case |
| 19 | Egypt | Egypt | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Pasha | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 coinciding | punct |
| 21 | coinciding | coincide | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 heart | acl |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 occasion | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 occasion | det |
| 24 | occasion | occasion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 coinciding | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 opening | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 opening | det |
| 27 | opening | opening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 occasion | nmod |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 Canal | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 Canal | det |
| 30 | Suez | Suez | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 Canal | compound |
| 31 | Canal | Canal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 opening | nmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 heart | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Downtown Cairo | the heart | of the city | tree rules | |||
| 2 | establish | past · passive | Downtown Cairo not said here | during the reign of Isma'il Pasha of Egypt | vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP» | ||||
| 3 | coincide | gerund | the heart not said here | with the occasion of the opening of the Suez Canal | vn amalgamate-22.2-2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Patient with occasion=Co-Patient | ||||
| 4 | occasion | the opening of the Suez Canal | nom occasion «event transitive»: of=patient |
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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