Kenya, sentence 109
From Wikipedia, «Kenya», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.
The Nandi were the first ethnic group to be put in a native reserve to stop them from disrupting the building of the railway.
Who acts: Nandi · What happens: be, put, stop, disrupt · To what, where: first ethnic group, native reserve, groups, building
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Kenya». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Nandi), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Nandi | det |
| 2 | Nandi | Nandi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 group | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 group | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 group | det |
| 5 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 7 group | amod |
| 6 | ethnic | ethnic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 group | amod |
| 7 | group | group | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 put | mark |
| 9 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 put | aux:pass |
| 10 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 group | acl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 reserve | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 reserve | det |
| 13 | native | native | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 reserve | amod |
| 14 | reserve | reserve | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 put | obl |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 stop | mark |
| 16 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 put | advcl |
| 17 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 stop | obj |
| 18 | from | from | SCONJ | _ | 19 disrupting | mark |
| 19 | disrupting | disrupt | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 stop | advcl |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 building | det |
| 21 | building | building | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 disrupting | obj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 railway | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 railway | det |
| 24 | railway | railway | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 building | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 group | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the Nandi | the first ethnic group | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | put | to-infinitive · passive | a native reserve | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: in reserve=Destination | |||||
| 3 | stop | to-infinitive | groups = group | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality they=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | disrupt | gerund | the building of the railway | tree rules |
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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