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title: This has fuelled rapid construction in the city, with one building i… — Cairo · tree and pragmatics
description: This has fuelled rapid construction in the city, with one building in five being less than 15 years old. Who acts: five. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Cairo» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Cairo, sentence 334

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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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This has fuelled rapid construction in the city, with one building in five being less than 15 years old.

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**Who acts:** five · **What happens:** fuell, be · **To what, where:** This, city

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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 (five), 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:334
# text = This has fuelled rapid construction in the city, with one building in five being less than 15 years old.
1	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	fuelled	fuell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	rapid	rapid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	construction	construction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
12	building	building	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
14	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	20	nsubj	_	_
15	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	20	cop	_	_
16	less	less	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV	18	advmod	_	_
17	than	than	ADP	IN	_	16	fixed	_	_
18	15	15	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	19	nummod	_	_
19	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl:unmarked	_	_
20	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fuell** | present · perfect · passive |  | This |  | the city |  | rapid construction *obj*; one building *parataxis* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | gerund | five |  |  |  | year | old *property* | tree rules |

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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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