Kenya, sentence 74
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.
These pre-colonial sources are in Arabic but contain Swahili loanwords, as illustrated by the 1462 AD (866 AH) funerary inscription of Mwana wa Bwana binti Mwidani on Mombasa Island.
What happens: be, contain, illustrate, inscribe · To what, where: pre-colonial sources, Swahili loanwords, Mwana wa
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: 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 | These | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 3 sources | det |
| 2 | pre-colonial | pre-colonial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 sources | amod |
| 3 | sources | source | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 sources | cop |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 Arabic | case |
| 6 | Arabic | Arabic | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 are | obl |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 contain | cc |
| 8 | contain | contain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 are | conj |
| 9 | Swahili | swahili | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 loanwords | amod |
| 10 | loanwords | loanword | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 contain | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 illustrated | punct |
| 12 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 13 illustrated | mark |
| 13 | illustrated | illustrate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 contain | conj |
| 14 | by | by | ADP | _ | 17 AD | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 AD | det |
| 16 | 1462 | 1462 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 17 AD | nummod |
| 17 | AD | ad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 illustrated | obl |
| 18 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 19 866 | punct |
| 19 | 866 | 866 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 17 AD | appos |
| 20 | AH | ah | INTJ | _ | 23 inscription | discourse |
| 21 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 20 AH | punct |
| 22 | funerary | funerary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 inscription | amod |
| 23 | inscription | inscription | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 866 | nmod:unmarked |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 wa | case |
| 25 | Mwana | Mwana | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 wa | compound |
| 26 | wa | WA | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 inscription | nmod |
| 27 | Bwana | Bwana | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 wa | flat |
| 28 | binti | binti | X | Foreign=Yes | 29 Mwidani | flat:foreign |
| 29 | Mwidani | Mwidani | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 866 | nmod:unmarked |
| 30 | on | on | ADP | _ | 32 Island | case |
| 31 | Mombasa | Mombasa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 Island | compound |
| 32 | Island | Island | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 AD | nmod |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sources | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | this pre-colonial sources | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | contain | present | Swahili loanwords | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot loanword=Theme | |||||
| 3 | illustrate | participle | by the 1462 AD on Mombasa Island | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | inscribe | Mwana wa | nom inscription «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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