Cairo, sentence 518
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.
Cairo has a very poor dispersion factor because of its lack of rain and its layout of tall buildings and narrow streets, which create a bowl effect.
Who acts: Cairo, tall buildings, feature · What happens: have, create, lack · To what, where: poor dispersion factor, bowl effect, rain
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, tall buildings, feature), 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 | Cairo | Cairo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 has | nsubj |
| 2 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 factor | det |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 poor | advmod |
| 5 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 factor | amod |
| 6 | dispersion | dispersion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 factor | compound |
| 7 | factor | factor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 has | obj |
| 8 | because | because | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 11 lack | case |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 because | fixed |
| 10 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 lack | nmod:poss |
| 11 | lack | lack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 factor | nmod |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 rain | case |
| 13 | rain | rain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 lack | nmod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 layout | cc |
| 15 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 layout | nmod:poss |
| 16 | layout | layout | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 lack | conj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 buildings | case |
| 18 | tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 buildings | amod |
| 19 | buildings | building | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 layout | nmod |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 streets | cc |
| 21 | narrow | narrow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 streets | amod |
| 22 | streets | street | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 buildings | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 create | punct |
| 24 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 create | nsubj |
| 25 | create | create | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 buildings | acl:relcl |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 effect | det |
| 27 | bowl | bowl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 effect | compound |
| 28 | effect | effect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 create | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 has | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | Cairo | a poor dispersion factor | because feature's lack of rain and feature's layout of tall buildings and narrow streets | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent factor=Patient | |||
| 2 | create | present | tall buildings and narrow streets | a bowl effect | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent effect=Result | ||||
| 3 | lack | feature | rain | nom lack «state transitive»: poss=agent 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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