Cairo, sentence 507
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.
Major corridors often see average speeds drop to 15–40 km/h, which is roughly half of their design speed.
Who acts: Major corridors, average speeds, 15 km/h · What happens: see, drop, be · To what, where: 15 km/h, half · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Major corridors, average speeds, 15 km/h), 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 | Major | major | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 corridors | amod |
| 2 | corridors | corridor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 see | nsubj |
| 3 | often | often | ADV | _ | 4 see | advmod |
| 4 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | average | average | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 speeds | amod |
| 6 | speeds | speed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 drop | nsubj |
| 7 | drop | drop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 see | ccomp |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 15 | case |
| 9 | 15 | 15 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 12 km/h | nummod |
| 10 | – | – | SYM | ExtPos=ADP | 11 40 | case |
| 11 | 40 | 40 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 15 | nmod |
| 12 | km/h | km/h | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 drop | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 half | punct |
| 14 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 half | nsubj |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 half | cop |
| 16 | roughly | roughly | ADV | _ | 17 half | advmod |
| 17 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 12 km/h | appos |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 speed | case |
| 19 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 speed | nmod:poss |
| 20 | design | design | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 speed | compound |
| 21 | speed | speed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 half | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | present | Major corridors | often property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | drop | present | average speeds | 15 km/h | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | 15 km/h | half | of corridors's design speed; roughly property | tree rules |
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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