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title: Major corridors often see average speeds drop to 15–40 km/h, which i… — Cairo · tree and pragmatics
description: Major corridors often see average speeds drop to 15–40 km/h, which is roughly half of their design speed. Who acts: Major corridors, average speeds, 15 km/h. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Cairo» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Cairo, sentence 507

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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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Major corridors often see average speeds drop to 15–40 km/h, which is roughly half of their design speed.

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**Who acts:** Major corridors, average speeds, 15 km/h · **What happens:** see, drop, be · **To what, where:** 15 km/h, half · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Major corridors, average speeds, 15 km/h), 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:507
# text = Major corridors often see average speeds drop to 15–40 km/h, which is roughly half of their design speed.
1	Major	major	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	corridors	corridor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	often	often	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	see	see	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	average	average	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	speeds	speed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	drop	drop	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	ccomp	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	15	15	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	–	–	SYM	SYM	ExtPos=ADP	11	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	40	40	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	nmod	_	_
12	km/h	km/h	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
16	roughly	roughly	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	12	appos	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
20	design	design	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	speed	speed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | present | Major corridors |  |  |  |  | often *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **drop** | present | average speeds | 15 km/h |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is a** | present | 15 km/h | half |  |  |  | of corridors's design speed; roughly *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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