Kenya, sentence 600
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.
The Kenyan Ministry of Sports has tried to stop the defections, but they have continued anyway, with Bernard Lagat being the latest, choosing to represent the United States.
Who acts: Kenyan Ministry, Bernard · What happens: try, stop, continue, be, choose, represent · To what, where: defections, sports, United States
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 (Kenyan Ministry, Bernard), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Ministry | det |
| 2 | Kenyan | Kenyan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Ministry | compound |
| 3 | Ministry | Ministry | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 tried | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Sports | case |
| 5 | Sports | Sport | PROPN | Number=Plur | 3 Ministry | nmod |
| 6 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 tried | aux |
| 7 | tried | try | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 stop | mark |
| 9 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 tried | xcomp |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 defections | det |
| 11 | defections | defection | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 stop | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 continued | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 continued | cc |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 continued | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 continued | aux |
| 16 | continued | continue | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 tried | conj |
| 17 | anyway | anyway | ADV | _ | 16 continued | advmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 Bernard | punct |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 Bernard | case |
| 20 | Bernard | Bernard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 latest | nsubj |
| 21 | Lagat | Lagat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Bernard | flat |
| 22 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 24 latest | cop |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 latest | det |
| 24 | latest | late | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 16 continued | parataxis |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 choosing | punct |
| 26 | choosing | choose | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 24 latest | advcl |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 represent | mark |
| 28 | represent | represent | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 choosing | xcomp |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 States | det |
| 30 | United | United | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 States | amod |
| 31 | States | State | PROPN | Number=Plur | 28 represent | obj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 tried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try | present · perfect | the Kenyan Ministry of Sports | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | stop not said to happen | to-infinitive | the Kenyan Ministry of Sports not said here | the defections | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality defection=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | continue | present · perfect · passive | sports = sport | anyway property | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is | gerund | Bernard | late property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | choose | gerund | Bernard not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | represent | to-infinitive | Bernard not said here | the United States | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot state=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.
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