Kenya, sentence 583

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.

Zilizopendwa is a genre of local urban music that was recorded in the 1960s, 70s, and 80s by musicians such as Daudi Kabaka, Fadhili William, and Sukuma Bin Ongaro, and is particularly enjoyed by older people—having been popularised by the Kenya Broadcasting Corporation's Kiswahili service (formerly called Voice of Kenya or VOK).

Who acts: Zilizopendwa, older people, Kiswahili service, Broadcasting Corporation · What happens: be, record, enjoy, popularis, call, service · To what, where: genre, local urban music, 1960s, Sukuma, older people, Kiswahili service · 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 (Zilizopendwa, older people, Kiswahili service, Broadcasting Corporation), 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	Zilizopendwa	Zilizopendwa	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 genre	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 genre	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 genre	det
4	genre	genre	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	8 music	case
6	local	local	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 music	amod
7	urban	urban	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 music	amod
8	music	music	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 genre	nmod
9	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 recorded	nsubj:pass
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 recorded	aux:pass
11	recorded	record	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 music	acl:relcl
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 1960s	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 1960s	det
14	1960s	1960s	NOUN	Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card	11 recorded	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 70s	punct
16	70s	70s	NOUN	Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card	14 1960s	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 80s	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 80s	cc
19	80s	80	NOUN	Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card	4 genre	conj
20	by	by	ADP	_	21 musicians	case
21	musicians	musician	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 80s	nmod
22	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP	24 Daudi	case
23	as	as	ADP	_	22 such	fixed
24	Daudi	Daudi	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 musicians	nmod
25	Kabaka	Kabaka	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 Daudi	flat
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 William	punct
27	Fadhili	Fadhili	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 William	compound
28	William	William	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 Daudi	conj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 Sukuma	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 Sukuma	cc
31	Sukuma	Sukuma	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 genre	conj
32	Bin	Bin	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 Sukuma	flat
33	Ongaro	Ongaro	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 Sukuma	flat
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 enjoyed	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 enjoyed	cc
36	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	38 enjoyed	aux:pass
37	particularly	particularly	ADV	_	38 enjoyed	advmod
38	enjoyed	enjoy	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	31 Sukuma	acl
39	by	by	ADP	_	41 people	case
40	older	old	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	41 people	amod
41	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 enjoyed	obl
42	—	-	PUNCT	_	45 popularised	punct
43	having	have	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	45 popularised	aux
44	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	45 popularised	aux:pass
45	popularised	popularis	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	41 people	acl:relcl
46	by	by	ADP	_	53 service	case
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 Corporation	det
48	Kenya	Kenya	PROPN	Number=Sing	49 Broadcasting	compound
49	Broadcasting	Broadcasting	PROPN	Number=Sing	50 Corporation	compound
50	Corporation	Corporation	PROPN	Number=Sing	53 service	nmod:poss
51	's	's	PART	_	50 Corporation	case
52	Kiswahili	Kiswahili	PROPN	Number=Sing	53 service	compound
53	service	service	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 popularised	obl
54	(	(	PUNCT	_	56 called	punct
55	formerly	formerly	ADV	_	56 called	advmod
56	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	53 service	acl
57	Voice	Voice	PROPN	Number=Sing	56 called	xcomp
58	of	of	ADP	_	59 Kenya	case
59	Kenya	Kenya	PROPN	Number=Sing	57 Voice	nmod
60	or	or	CCONJ	_	61 VOK	cc
61	VOK	VOK	PROPN	Number=Sing	57 Voice	conj
62	)	)	PUNCT	_	56 called	punct
63	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 genre	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Zilizopendwa	a genre and 80s by musicians such Daudi and Fadhili William and Sukuma		of local urban music; 80s by musicians such Daudi and Fadhili William conj; Sukuma conj	tree rules
2	record	past · passive		local urban music	the 1960s and 70s		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in 1960s=Destination
3	enjoy	present · passive	older people	Sukuma not said here		particularly property	vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
4	popularis	gerund · perfect · passive	the Broadcasting Corporation's Kiswahili service	older people not said here			tree rules
5	call	participle		the Broadcasting Corporation's Kiswahili service not said here		Voice of Kenya or VOK xcomp; formerly property	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	service		the Broadcasting Corporation				nom service «act transitive»: 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.

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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Kenya, sentence 583