Cairo, sentence 68
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.
The Fatimid Caliph al-Mu'izz li-Din Allah instructed his courtier and general Jawhar al-Saqili to establish a new fortified city northeast of Fustat and of former al-Qata'i.
Who acts: Fatimid Caliph · What happens: instruct, establish · To what, where: courtier, new fortified city northeast
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 (Fatimid Caliph), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Caliph | det |
| 2 | Fatimid | Fatimid | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Caliph | compound |
| 3 | Caliph | Caliph | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 instructed | nsubj |
| 4 | al | Al | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Caliph | flat |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 Mu'izz | punct |
| 6 | Mu'izz | Mu'izz | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Caliph | flat |
| 7 | li | li | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 instructed | nsubj |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 Din | punct |
| 9 | Din | Din | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 li | appos |
| 10 | Allah | Allah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Din | flat |
| 11 | instructed | instruct | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 courtier | nmod:poss |
| 13 | courtier | courtier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 instructed | obj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 Jawhar | cc |
| 15 | general | general | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 Jawhar | amod |
| 16 | Jawhar | Jawhar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 courtier | conj |
| 17 | al | Al | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Jawhar | flat |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 Saqili | punct |
| 19 | Saqili | Saqili | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Jawhar | flat |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 establish | mark |
| 21 | establish | establish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 instructed | advcl |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 northeast | det |
| 23 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 northeast | amod |
| 24 | fortified | fortified | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 northeast | amod |
| 25 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 northeast | compound |
| 26 | northeast | northeast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 establish | obj |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 Fustat | case |
| 28 | Fustat | Fustat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 northeast | nmod |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 al | cc |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 al | case |
| 31 | former | former | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 al | amod |
| 32 | al | Al | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 Fustat | conj |
| 33 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 34 Qata'i | punct |
| 34 | Qata'i | Qata'i | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 al | flat |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 instructed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | instruct speech: other | past | the Fatimid Caliph | li's courtier and general Jawhar | li nsubj | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent courtier=Recipient | |||
| 2 | establish | to-infinitive | the Fatimid Caliph not said here | a new fortified city northeast of Fustat and former al | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent northeast=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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