Kenya, sentence 439
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.
Early in 2006, Chinese president Hu Jintao signed an oil exploration contract with Kenya, part of a series of deals designed to keep Africa's natural resources flowing to China's rapidly expanding economy.
Who acts: Hu, natural resources · What happens: sign, design, keep, flow, expand · To what, where: exploration contract, 2006, deals, natural resources, China, economy
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 (Hu, natural resources), 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 | Early | early | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 2006 | advmod |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 3 2006 | case |
| 3 | 2006 | 2006 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 signed | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 president | punct |
| 5 | Chinese | Chinese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 president | amod |
| 6 | president | president | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Hu | nmod:desc |
| 7 | Hu | Hu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 signed | nsubj |
| 8 | Jintao | Jintao | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Hu | flat |
| 9 | signed | sign | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 contract | det |
| 11 | oil | oil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 exploration | compound |
| 12 | exploration | exploration | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 contract | compound |
| 13 | contract | contract | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 signed | obj |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 Kenya | case |
| 15 | Kenya | Kenya | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 contract | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 part | punct |
| 17 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 contract | conj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 series | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 series | det |
| 20 | series | series | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 part | nmod |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 deals | case |
| 22 | deals | deal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 series | nmod |
| 23 | designed | design | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 deals | acl |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 keep | mark |
| 25 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 designed | advcl |
| 26 | Africa | Africa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 resources | nmod:poss |
| 27 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 26 Africa | case |
| 28 | natural | natural | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 resources | amod |
| 29 | resources | resource | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 keep | obj |
| 30 | flowing | flow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 25 keep | xcomp |
| 31 | to | to | ADP | _ | 32 China | case |
| 32 | China | China | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 flowing | obl |
| 33 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 32 China | case |
| 34 | rapidly | rapidly | ADV | _ | 35 expanding | advmod |
| 35 | expanding | expand | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 30 flowing | conj |
| 36 | economy | economy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 expanding | obj |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 signed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sign | past | Hu Chinese president | a exploration contract and part of a series of deals | 2006 | with Kenya | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent contract=Theme in 2006=Destination | ||
| 2 | design | participle | deals not said here | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | keep | to-infinitive | Africa's natural resources | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | flow | gerund | Africa's natural resources not said here | China | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | expand | gerund | Africa's natural resources not said here | economy | rapidly property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent economy=Patient |
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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