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title: In 1905–1907 the northern part of the Gezira island was developed by… — Cairo · tree and pragmatics
description: In 1905–1907 the northern part of the Gezira island was developed by the Baehler Company into Zamalek, which would later become Cairo's upscale "chic" neighbourhood. Who acts: Baehler Company. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Cairo» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Cairo, sentence 146

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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 1905–1907 the northern part of the Gezira island was developed by the Baehler Company into Zamalek, which would later become Cairo's upscale "chic" neighbourhood.

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**Who acts:** Baehler Company · **What happens:** develop, become · **To what, where:** northern part, 1905, upscale chic neighbourhood

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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 (Baehler Company), 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:146
# text = In 1905–1907 the northern part of the Gezira island was developed by the Baehler Company into Zamalek, which would later become Cairo's upscale "chic" neighbourhood.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	1905	1905	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	–	-	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	1907	1907	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	flat	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	northern	northern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	Gezira	Gezira	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	developed	develop	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
14	by	by	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	Baehler	Baehler	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	Company	Company	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
18	into	into	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	Zamalek	Zamalek	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	24	nsubj	_	_
22	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
23	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	24	advmod	_	_
24	become	become	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	advcl	_	_
25	Cairo	Cairo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	's	's	PART	POS	_	25	case	_	_
27	upscale	upscale	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
28	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	chic	chic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	29	punct	_	_
31	neighbourhood	neighbourhood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **develop** | past · passive | the Baehler Company | the northern part of the Gezira island |  | 1905 |  | into Zamalek | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent subject=Material into zamalek=Product |
| 2 | **become** | would |  | Cairo's upscale chic neighbourhood |  |  |  | which *nsubj*; late *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |

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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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