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title: Downtown Cairo is the heart of the city and was established during t… — Cairo · tree and pragmatics
description: Downtown Cairo is the heart of the city and was established during the reign of Isma'il Pasha of Egypt, coinciding with the occasion of the opening of the Suez Canal. Who acts: Downtown Cairo, heart. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Cairo» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Cairo, sentence 426

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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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Downtown Cairo is the heart of the city and was established during the reign of Isma'il Pasha of Egypt, coinciding with the occasion of the opening of the Suez Canal.

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**Who acts:** Downtown Cairo, heart · **What happens:** be, establish, coincide, occasion · **To what, where:** heart, opening

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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 (Downtown Cairo, heart), 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:426
# text = Downtown Cairo is the heart of the city and was established during the reign of Isma'il Pasha of Egypt, coinciding with the occasion of the opening of the Suez Canal.
1	Downtown	Downtown	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	Cairo	Cairo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	established	establish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	conj	_	_
12	during	during	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	reign	reign	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	Isma'il	Isma'il	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	Pasha	Pasha	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	Egypt	Egypt	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	coinciding	coincide	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	acl	_	_
22	with	with	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	occasion	occasion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	opening	opening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	Suez	Suez	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	Canal	Canal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Downtown Cairo | the heart |  |  |  | of the city | tree rules |
| 2 | **establish** | past · passive | Downtown Cairo *not said here* |  |  |  | during the reign of Isma'il Pasha of Egypt |  | vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP» |
| 3 | **coincide** | gerund | the heart *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with the occasion of the opening of the Suez Canal | vn amalgamate-22.2-2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Patient with occasion=Co-Patient |
| 4 | **occasion** |  |  | the opening of the Suez Canal |  |  |  |  | nom occasion «event 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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