Cairo, sentence 60
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.
Over time, Ibn Tulun gained an army and accumulated influence and wealth, allowing him to become the de facto independent ruler of both Egypt and Syria by 878.
Who acts: Ibn, de · What happens: gain, accumulate, allow, become, ruler · To what, where: army, influence, ibn
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 (Ibn, de), 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 | Over | over | ADP | _ | 2 time | case |
| 2 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 gained | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 time | punct |
| 4 | Ibn | Ibn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 gained | nsubj |
| 5 | Tulun | Tulun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Ibn | flat |
| 6 | gained | gain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 army | det |
| 8 | army | army | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 gained | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 accumulated | cc |
| 10 | accumulated | accumulate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 gained | conj |
| 11 | influence | influence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 accumulated | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 wealth | cc |
| 13 | wealth | wealth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 influence | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 allowing | punct |
| 15 | allowing | allow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 accumulated | advcl |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 allowing | obj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 become | mark |
| 18 | become | become | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 allowing | xcomp |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 ruler | det |
| 20 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 23 ruler | nsubj |
| 21 | facto | facto | X | Foreign=Yes | 23 ruler | dep |
| 22 | independent | independent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 ruler | amod |
| 23 | ruler | ruler | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 become | xcomp |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 Egypt | case |
| 25 | both | both | CCONJ | _ | 26 Egypt | cc:preconj |
| 26 | Egypt | Egypt | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 ruler | nmod |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 Syria | cc |
| 28 | Syria | Syria | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 Egypt | conj |
| 29 | by | by | ADP | _ | 30 878 | case |
| 30 | 878 | 878 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 18 become | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 gained | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gain | past | Ibn | a army | time | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent army=Theme | |||
| 2 | accumulate | past | Ibn not said here | influence and wealth | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent influence=Theme | ||||
| 3 | allow | gerund | Ibn not said here | ibn | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer he=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | become not said to happen | to-infinitive | ibn not said here | by 878 | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 5 | ruler | de | of Egypt and Syria | 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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