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title: There are two types of buses in Cairo, those run by the Cairo Transp… — Cairo · tree and pragmatics
description: There are two types of buses in Cairo, those run by the Cairo Transport Authority, and those run by private companies, with the latter using smaller minibuses. Who acts: two types. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Cairo» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Cairo, sentence 370

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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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There are two types of buses in Cairo, those run by the Cairo Transport Authority, and those run by private companies, with the latter using smaller minibuses.

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**Who acts:** two types · **What happens:** be, run, use, type · **To what, where:** buses

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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 (two types), 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:370
# text = There are two types of buses in Cairo, those run by the Cairo Transport Authority, and those run by private companies, with the latter using smaller minibuses.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	are	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	types	type	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	buses	bus	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Cairo	Cairo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
10	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	19	nsubj	_	_
11	run	run	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl	_	_
12	by	by	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
14	Cairo	Cairo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
15	Transport	Transport	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	Authority	Authority	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obl:agent	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	4	appos	_	_
20	run	run	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	acl	_	_
21	by	by	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	private	private	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	companies	company	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl:agent	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
25	with	with	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
27	latter	latter	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
28	using	use	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	30	amod	_	_
29	smaller	small	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	30	amod	_	_
30	minibuses	minibus	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **does** | present | two types of buses in Cairo |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **run** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | the Cairo Transport Authority *obl:agent* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **run** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | private companies *obl:agent* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **use** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **type** |  |  | buses in Cairo |  |  |  |  | nom type «cognition transitive»: of=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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