Cairo, sentence 436
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.
It was first named Ismailia Square, after the 19th-century ruler Khedive Ismail, who commissioned the new downtown district's 'Paris on the Nile' design.
Who acts: century ruler, Nile · What happens: name, commission, design · To what, where: establishment, new downtown district, design
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 (century ruler, Nile), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 named | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 named | aux:pass |
| 3 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 named | advmod |
| 4 | named | name | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | Ismailia | Ismailia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Square | compound |
| 6 | Square | Square | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 named | xcomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 ruler | punct |
| 8 | after | after | ADP | _ | 13 ruler | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 ruler | det |
| 10 | 19th | 19th | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Combi NumType=Ord | 12 century | amod |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 19th | punct |
| 12 | century | century | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 ruler | compound |
| 13 | ruler | ruler | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 named | parataxis |
| 14 | Khedive | Khedive | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 ruler | appos |
| 15 | Ismail | Ismail | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Khedive | flat |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 commissioned | punct |
| 17 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 commissioned | nsubj |
| 18 | commissioned | commission | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 ruler | conj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 district | det |
| 20 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 district | amod |
| 21 | downtown | downtown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 district | compound |
| 22 | district | district | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 commissioned | obj |
| 23 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 22 district | case |
| 24 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 25 Paris | punct |
| 25 | Paris | Paris | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 district | appos |
| 26 | on | on | ADP | _ | 30 design | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 Nile | det |
| 28 | Nile | Nile | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 design | nmod:poss |
| 29 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 28 Nile | case |
| 30 | design | design | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 commissioned | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 named | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | name | past · passive | establishment | Ismailia Square xcomp; the century ruler parataxis; first property | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | commission | past | the century ruler | the new downtown district | the Nile's design | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent district=Theme | |||
| 3 | design | the Nile | nom design «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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