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title: In 1906, the Heliopolis Oasis Company headed by the Belgian industri… — Cairo · tree and pragmatics
description: In 1906, the Heliopolis Oasis Company headed by the Belgian industrialist Édouard Empain and his Egyptian counterpart Boghos Nubar, built a suburb called Heliopolis (city of the sun in Greek) ten kilometres from the centre of Cairo. Who acts: Heliopolis Oasis Company, Egyptian counterpart. A sentenc
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# Cairo, sentence 145

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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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In 1906, the Heliopolis Oasis Company headed by the Belgian industrialist Édouard Empain and his Egyptian counterpart Boghos Nubar, built a suburb called Heliopolis (city of the sun in Greek) ten kilometres from the centre of Cairo.

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**Who acts:** Heliopolis Oasis Company, Egyptian counterpart · **What happens:** head, build, call · **To what, where:** 1906, suburb, centre · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Heliopolis Oasis Company, Egyptian counterpart), 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:145
# text = In 1906, the Heliopolis Oasis Company headed by the Belgian industrialist Édouard Empain and his Egyptian counterpart Boghos Nubar, built a suburb called Heliopolis (city of the sun in Greek) ten kilometres from the centre of Cairo.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	1906	1906	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	Heliopolis	Heliopolis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
6	Oasis	Oasis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	Company	Company	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	headed	head	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	by	by	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	Belgian	Belgian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	industrialist	industrialist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
13	Édouard	Édouard	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	appos	_	_
14	Empain	Empain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	flat	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
17	Egyptian	Egyptian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	counterpart	counterpart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
19	Boghos	Boghos	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	appos	_	_
20	Nubar	Nubar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
22	built	build	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	suburb	suburb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	acl	_	_
26	Heliopolis	Heliopolis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	xcomp	_	_
27	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	appos	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
32	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	Greek	Greek	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	28	punct	_	_
35	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	36	nummod	_	_
36	kilometres	kilometre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl:unmarked	_	_
37	from	from	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	centre	centre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
40	of	of	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	Cairo	Cairo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	39	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **head** | past | the Heliopolis Oasis Company |  |  | 1906 |  | by the Belgian industrialist | vn conduct-111.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **build** | past | Company's Egyptian counterpart | a suburb |  | the centre of Cairo |  | ten kilometres *obl:unmarked* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: agent=Asset suburb=Product from centre=Material |
| 3 | **call** | participle |  | a suburb *not said here* |  |  |  | Heliopolis *xcomp* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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