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title: The city's economic centre quickly moved west toward the Nile, away… — Cairo · tree and pragmatics
description: The city's economic centre quickly moved west toward the Nile, away from the historic Islamic Cairo section and toward the contemporary, European-style areas built by Isma'il. Who acts: economic centre. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Cairo» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Cairo, sentence 143

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From Wikipedia, [«Cairo»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cairo), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.

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The city's economic centre quickly moved west toward the Nile, away from the historic Islamic Cairo section and toward the contemporary, European-style areas built by Isma'il.

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**Who acts:** economic centre · **What happens:** move, build · **To what, where:** Nile, contemporary style areas

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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 (economic centre), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = wikipedia:Cairo:143
# text = The city's economic centre quickly moved west toward the Nile, away from the historic Islamic Cairo section and toward the contemporary, European-style areas built by Isma'il.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	economic	economic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	centre	centre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	moved	move	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	west	west	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	toward	toward	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	Nile	Nile	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	away	away	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
14	from	from	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
16	historic	historic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
17	Islamic	Islamic	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	Cairo	Cairo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	section	section	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
21	toward	toward	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
23	contemporary	contemporary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
25	European	European	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	style	style	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	areas	area	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	conj	_	_
29	built	build	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	28	acl	_	_
30	by	by	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	Isma'il	Isma'il	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **move** | past | the city's economic centre |  |  | the Nile |  | away, quickly, west *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme toward nile=Trajectory |
| 2 | **build** | participle |  | the contemporary style areas *not said here* |  |  |  | by Isma'il | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

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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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**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.

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