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Kenya, sentence 477

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.

It has been developing since colonisation and also contains certain elements of American English.

Who acts: dialect · What happens: develop, contain · To what, where: certain elements

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 (dialect), 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

nsubjauxauxcaseoblccadvmodconjamodobjcaseamodnmodpunctrootItPRONhasAUXbeenAUXdevelopingVERBsinceADPcolonisationNOUNandCCONJalsoADVcontainsVERBcertainADJelementsNOUNofADPAmericanADJEnglishPROPN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ItitPRONCase=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs4 developingnsubj
2hashaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin4 developingaux
3beenbeAUXTense=Past VerbForm=Part4 developingaux
4developingdevelopVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Partrootroot
5sincesinceADP_6 colonisationcase
6colonisationcolonisationNOUNNumber=Sing4 developingobl
7andandCCONJ_9 containscc
8alsoalsoADV_9 containsadvmod
9containscontainVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin4 developingconj
10certaincertainADJDegree=Pos11 elementsamod
11elementselementNOUNNumber=Plur9 containsobj
12ofofADP_14 Englishcase
13AmericanAmericanADJDegree=Pos14 Englishamod
14EnglishEnglishPROPNNumber=Sing11 elementsnmod
15..PUNCT_4 developingpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1developpresent · perfect · progressivedialectsince colonisationvn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2containpresentdialect not said herecertain elements of American Englishvn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot element=Theme

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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