Kenya, sentence 147
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.
Before Kenya got its independence, Somali ethnic people in present-day Kenya in the areas of Northern Frontier Districts petitioned Her Majesty's Government not to be included in Kenya.
Who acts: Kenya, Somali ethnic people · What happens: get, petition, not include · To what, where: independence, Government, Kenya
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 (Kenya, Somali ethnic people), 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 | Before | before | SCONJ | _ | 3 got | mark |
| 2 | Kenya | Kenya | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 got | nsubj |
| 3 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 petitioned | advcl |
| 4 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 independence | nmod:poss |
| 5 | independence | independence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 got | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 got | punct |
| 7 | Somali | somali | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 people | amod |
| 8 | ethnic | ethnic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 people | amod |
| 9 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 petitioned | nsubj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 Kenya | case |
| 11 | present | present | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 day | amod |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 present | punct |
| 13 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 Kenya | compound |
| 14 | Kenya | Kenya | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 people | nmod |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 areas | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 areas | det |
| 17 | areas | area | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 people | nmod |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 Districts | case |
| 19 | Northern | Northern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 Frontier | amod |
| 20 | Frontier | Frontier | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Districts | compound |
| 21 | Districts | district | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 areas | nmod |
| 22 | petitioned | petition | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 23 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 Majesty | nmod:poss |
| 24 | Majesty | Majesty | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 Government | nmod:poss |
| 25 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 24 Majesty | case |
| 26 | Government | Government | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 petitioned | obj |
| 27 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 30 included | advmod |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 included | mark |
| 29 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 30 included | aux:pass |
| 30 | included | include | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 petitioned | advcl |
| 31 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 Kenya | case |
| 32 | Kenya | Kenya | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 included | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 petitioned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | Kenya | independence's independence | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer independence=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | petition | past | Somali ethnic people in day Kenya in the areas of Frontier Districts | Kenya's Majesty's Government | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not include | to-infinitive · passive | Somali ethnic people in day Kenya in the areas of Frontier Districts not said here | in Kenya goal | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP PP.goal»: in kenya=Goal |
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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