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Kenya, sentence 474

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.

Peri-urban and rural dwellers are less multilingual, with many in rural areas speaking only their native languages.

Who acts: Peri urban dwellers, many rural areas · What happens: be, speak · To what, where: native languages · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Peri urban dwellers, many rural areas), 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

compoundpunctamodccconjnsubjcopadvmodpunctcaseamodcaseamodparataxisacladvmodnmod:possamodobjpunctrootPeriPROPN-PUNCTurbanADJandCCONJruralADJdwellersNOUNareAUXlessADVmultilingualADJ,PUNCTwithADPmanyADJinADPruralADJareasNOUNspeakingVERBonlyADVtheirPRONnativeADJlanguagesNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1PeriPeriPROPNNumber=Sing6 dwellerscompound
2--PUNCT_1 Peripunct
3urbanurbanADJDegree=Pos6 dwellersamod
4andandCCONJ_5 ruralcc
5ruralruralADJDegree=Pos3 urbanconj
6dwellersdwellerNOUNNumber=Plur9 multilingualnsubj
7arebeAUXMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin9 multilingualcop
8lesslessADVDegree=Cmp9 multilingualadvmod
9multilingualmultilingualADJDegree=Posrootroot
10,,PUNCT_15 areaspunct
11withwithADP_15 areascase
12manymanyADJDegree=Pos15 areasamod
13ininADP_15 areascase
14ruralruralADJDegree=Pos15 areasamod
15areasareaNOUNNumber=Plur9 multilingualparataxis
16speakingspeakVERBVerbForm=Ger15 areasacl
17onlyonlyADV_20 languagesadvmod
18theirtheirPRONCase=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs20 languagesnmod:poss
19nativenativeADJDegree=Pos20 languagesamod
20languageslanguageNOUNNumber=Plur16 speakingobj
21..PUNCT_9 multilingualpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1ispresentPeri urban dwellersmany rural areas parataxis; less, multilingual propertytree rules
2speak speech: othergerundmany rural areas not said heredwellers's native languagestree 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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