Cairo, sentence 46
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.
In 641 or early 642, after the surrender of Alexandria, the Egyptian capital at the time, he founded a new settlement next to Babylon Fortress.
Who acts: Babylon · What happens: found, surrender · To what, where: new settlement, 641, Alexandria
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 (Babylon), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 641 | case |
| 2 | 641 | 641 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 21 founded | obl |
| 3 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 5 642 | cc |
| 4 | early | early | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 642 | amod |
| 5 | 642 | 642 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 641 | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 641 | punct |
| 7 | after | after | ADP | _ | 9 surrender | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 surrender | det |
| 9 | surrender | surrender | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 641 | nmod |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 Alexandria | case |
| 11 | Alexandria | Alexandria | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 surrender | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 capital | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 capital | det |
| 14 | Egyptian | Egyptian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 capital | amod |
| 15 | capital | capital | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 Alexandria | appos |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 18 time | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 time | det |
| 18 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 capital | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 641 | punct |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 founded | nsubj |
| 21 | founded | found | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 settlement | det |
| 23 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 settlement | amod |
| 24 | settlement | settlement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 founded | obj |
| 25 | next | next | ADV | _ | 21 founded | advmod |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 Fortress | case |
| 27 | Babylon | Babylon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 Fortress | compound |
| 28 | Fortress | Fortress | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 next | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 founded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | found | past | Babylon | a new settlement | 641 after the surrender of Alexandria | next property | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent settlement=Patient | ||
| 2 | surrender | Alexandria | nom surrender «feeling 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.
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Cairo/46/