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title: Trams in Greater Cairo and Cairo trolleybus were used as modes of tr… — Cairo · tree and pragmatics
description: Trams in Greater Cairo and Cairo trolleybus were used as modes of transportation, but were closed in the 1970s everywhere except Heliopolis and Helwan. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Cairo» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Cairo, sentence 359

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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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Trams in Greater Cairo and Cairo trolleybus were used as modes of transportation, but were closed in the 1970s everywhere except Heliopolis and Helwan.

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**What happens:** use, close · **To what, where:** Trams

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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: 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:359
# text = Trams in Greater Cairo and Cairo trolleybus were used as modes of transportation, but were closed in the 1970s everywhere except Heliopolis and Helwan.
1	Trams	tram	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	Greater	Greater	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	Cairo	Cairo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	Cairo	Cairo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	trolleybus	trolleybus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
8	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
10	as	as	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	modes	mode	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	transportation	transportation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	closed	close	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	conj	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	1970s	1970s	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card	17	obl	_	_
21	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	17	advmod	_	_
22	except	except	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	Heliopolis	Heliopolis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	Helwan	Helwan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **use** | past · passive |  | Trams in Greater Cairo and Cairo trolleybus |  |  |  | as modes of transportation | vn spend\_time-104 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Duration as mode=Attribute |
| 2 | **close** | past · passive |  |  |  |  |  | except Heliopolis and Helwan; in the 1970s; everywhere *property* | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: in 1970s=Topic |

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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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