Kenya, sentence 571
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 is the fictional memoir of a Kenyan of Indian heritage and his family as they adjust to the changing political climates in colonial and post-colonial Kenya.
Who acts: Prize, Kenyans · What happens: be, adjust, change · To what, where: fictional memoir, colonial 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 (Prize, Kenyans), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 memoir | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 memoir | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 memoir | det |
| 4 | fictional | fictional | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 memoir | amod |
| 5 | memoir | memoir | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 heritage | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 heritage | det |
| 8 | Kenyan | Kenyan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 heritage | nsubj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 heritage | case |
| 10 | Indian | Indian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 heritage | amod |
| 11 | heritage | heritage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 memoir | nmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 family | cc |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 family | nmod:poss |
| 14 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 heritage | conj |
| 15 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 17 adjust | mark |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 adjust | nsubj |
| 17 | adjust | adjust | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 memoir | advcl |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 climates | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 climates | det |
| 20 | changing | change | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 22 climates | amod |
| 21 | political | political | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 climates | amod |
| 22 | climates | climate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 adjust | obl |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 Kenya | case |
| 24 | colonial | colonial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 Kenya | amod |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 post-colonial | cc |
| 26 | post-colonial | post-colonial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 colonial | conj |
| 27 | Kenya | Kenya | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 adjust | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 memoir | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Prize | the fictional memoir | of a Indian heritage Kenyan and Vassanji's family | tree rules | |||
| 2 | adjust | present | Kenyans = kenyan | colonial Kenya | to the changing political climates goal | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent to climate=Goal | |||
| 3 | change | gerund | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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.
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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