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# Cairo, sentence 577

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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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Naguib Mahfouz (1911–2006), novelist, Nobel Prize in Literature laureate in 1988

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**Who acts:** Naguib · **What happens:** laureate · **To what, where:** 1988

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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 (Naguib), 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:577
# text = Naguib Mahfouz (1911–2006), novelist, Nobel Prize in Literature laureate in 1988
1	Naguib	Naguib	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
2	Mahfouz	Mahfouz	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	1911	1911	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	1	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	–	–	SYM	SYM	ExtPos=ADP	6	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	2006	2006	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	novelist	novelist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	list	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	Nobel	Nobel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	Prize	Prize	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Literature	Literature	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
15	laureate	laureate	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	1988	1988	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	15	obl	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **laureate** | present | Naguib  novelist and Nobel Prize in Literature |  |  | 1988 |  |  | 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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