Kenya, sentence 276
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 2002 elections marked an important turning point in Kenya's democratic evolution in that power was transferred peacefully from the Kenya African National Union (KANU), which had ruled the country since independence, to the National Rainbow Coalition (NARC), a coalition of political parties.
Who acts: 2002 elections, National Rainbow Coalition, Kenya · What happens: mark, transfer, rule, evolve · To what, where: important turning point, democratic evolution, power, country
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 (2002 elections, National Rainbow Coalition, Kenya), 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 | 3 elections | det |
| 2 | 2002 | 2002 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 elections | nummod |
| 3 | elections | election | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 marked | nsubj |
| 4 | marked | mark | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 point | det |
| 6 | important | important | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 point | amod |
| 7 | turning | turning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 point | compound |
| 8 | point | point | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 marked | obj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 evolution | case |
| 10 | Kenya | Kenya | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 evolution | nmod:poss |
| 11 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 10 Kenya | case |
| 12 | democratic | democratic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 evolution | amod |
| 13 | evolution | evolution | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 point | nmod |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 power | case |
| 15 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 power | det |
| 16 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 transferred | obl |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 transferred | aux:pass |
| 18 | transferred | transfer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 marked | parataxis |
| 19 | peacefully | peacefully | ADV | _ | 18 transferred | advmod |
| 20 | from | from | ADP | _ | 25 Union | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 Union | det |
| 22 | Kenya | Kenya | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 Union | nsubj |
| 23 | African | African | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 Union | compound |
| 24 | National | National | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 Union | amod |
| 25 | Union | Union | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 transferred | obl |
| 26 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 27 KANU | punct |
| 27 | KANU | KANU | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 Union | appos |
| 28 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 27 KANU | punct |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 ruled | punct |
| 30 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 32 ruled | nsubj:pass |
| 31 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 ruled | aux |
| 32 | ruled | rule | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 transferred | conj |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 country | det |
| 34 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 ruled | obj |
| 35 | since | since | ADP | _ | 36 independence | case |
| 36 | independence | independence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 ruled | obl |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 Coalition | punct |
| 38 | to | to | ADP | _ | 42 Coalition | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 Coalition | det |
| 40 | National | National | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 Coalition | amod |
| 41 | Rainbow | Rainbow | PROPN | Number=Sing | 42 Coalition | compound |
| 42 | Coalition | Coalition | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 ruled | obl:agent |
| 43 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 44 NARC | punct |
| 44 | NARC | narc | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 Coalition | appos |
| 45 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 44 NARC | punct |
| 46 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 coalition | punct |
| 47 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 48 coalition | det |
| 48 | coalition | coalition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 Coalition | appos |
| 49 | of | of | ADP | _ | 51 parties | case |
| 50 | political | political | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 51 parties | amod |
| 51 | parties | party | NOUN | Number=Plur | 48 coalition | nmod |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 marked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mark | past | the 2002 elections | a important turning point | Kenya's democratic evolution | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent point=Theme in evolution=Destination | |||
| 2 | transfer | past · passive | that power | from the African National Union Kenya; peacefully property | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: from union=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | rule | past · perfect · passive | the National Rainbow Coalition | the country | since independence | which nsubj:pass | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme country=Result | ||
| 4 | evolve | Kenya | nom evolution «process intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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