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title: The Fatimid Caliph al-Mu'izz li-Din Allah instructed his courtier an… — Cairo · tree and pragmatics
description: The Fatimid Caliph al-Mu'izz li-Din Allah instructed his courtier and general Jawhar al-Saqili to establish a new fortified city northeast of Fustat and of former al-Qata'i. Who acts: Fatimid Caliph. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Cairo» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Cairo, sentence 68

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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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The Fatimid Caliph al-Mu'izz li-Din Allah instructed his courtier and general Jawhar al-Saqili to establish a new fortified city northeast of Fustat and of former al-Qata'i.

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**Who acts:** Fatimid Caliph · **What happens:** instruct, establish · **To what, where:** courtier, new fortified city northeast

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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 (Fatimid Caliph), 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:68
# text = The Fatimid Caliph al-Mu'izz li-Din Allah instructed his courtier and general Jawhar al-Saqili to establish a new fortified city northeast of Fustat and of former al-Qata'i.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Fatimid	Fatimid	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Caliph	Caliph	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
4	al	Al	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	Mu'izz	Mu'izz	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	flat	_	_
7	li	li	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	Din	Din	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	_
10	Allah	Allah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	flat	_	_
11	instructed	instruct	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	courtier	courtier	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	general	general	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	Jawhar	Jawhar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
17	al	Al	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	Saqili	Saqili	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	flat	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	establish	establish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	advcl	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
23	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
24	fortified	fortified	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
25	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	northeast	northeast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	Fustat	Fustat	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	former	former	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	al	Al	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	34	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	Qata'i	Qata'i	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **instruct** *speech: other* | past | the Fatimid Caliph | li's courtier and general Jawhar |  |  |  | li *nsubj* | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent courtier=Recipient |
| 2 | **establish** | to-infinitive | the Fatimid Caliph *not said here* | a new fortified city northeast of Fustat and former al |  |  |  |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent northeast=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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