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Kenya, sentence 141

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.

More than 80,000 Kikuyu were held in detention camps without trial, often subject to brutal treatment.

What happens: hold, subject · To what, where: 80,000, detention camps

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: 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

advmodfixednsubj:passnsubjaux:passcasecompoundoblcaseoblpunctadvmodconjcaseamodoblpunctrootMoreADJthanADP80,000NUMKikuyuPROPNwereAUXheldVERBinADPdetentionNOUNcampsNOUNwithoutADPtrialNOUN,PUNCToftenADVsubjectVERBtoADPbrutalADJtreatmentNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1MoremoreADJDegree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV3 80,000advmod
2thanthanADP_1 Morefixed
380,00080000NUMNumForm=Digit NumType=Card6 heldnsubj:pass
4KikuyuKikuyuPROPNNumber=Sing6 heldnsubj
5werebeAUXMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin6 heldaux:pass
6heldholdVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Passrootroot
7ininADP_9 campscase
8detentiondetentionNOUNNumber=Sing9 campscompound
9campscampNOUNNumber=Plur6 heldobl
10withoutwithoutADP_11 trialcase
11trialtrialNOUNNumber=Sing6 heldobl
12,,PUNCT_14 subjectpunct
13oftenoftenADV_14 subjectadvmod
14subjectsubjectVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin6 heldconj
15totoADP_17 treatmentcase
16brutalbrutalADJDegree=Pos17 treatmentamod
17treatmenttreatmentNOUNNumber=Sing14 subjectobl
18..PUNCT_6 heldpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1holdpast · passive80,000detention campswithout trial; Kikuyu nsubjvn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme in camp=Location
2subjectpresentto brutal treatment; often propertytree 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.

Text: the English Wikipedia, «Kenya», 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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