Kenya, sentence 85
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.
In 1414, the Chinese trader and explorer Zheng He, representing the Ming dynasty, visited the East African coast on one of his last 'treasure voyages'.
Who acts: trader Zheng, Malindi · What happens: represent, visit, voyage · To what, where: Ming dynasty, East African coast, 1414
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 (trader Zheng, Malindi), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 1414 | case |
| 2 | 1414 | 1414 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 17 visited | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 1414 | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 trader | det |
| 5 | Chinese | Chinese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 trader | amod |
| 6 | trader | trader | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 Zheng | compound |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 explorer | cc |
| 8 | explorer | explorer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 trader | conj |
| 9 | Zheng | Zheng | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 visited | nsubj |
| 10 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 Zheng | flat |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 representing | punct |
| 12 | representing | represent | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 Zheng | acl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 dynasty | det |
| 14 | Ming | Ming | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 dynasty | compound |
| 15 | dynasty | dynasty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 representing | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 Zheng | punct |
| 17 | visited | visit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 coast | det |
| 19 | East | East | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 coast | compound |
| 20 | African | African | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 coast | amod |
| 21 | coast | coast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 visited | obj |
| 22 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 one | case |
| 23 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 visited | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 voyages | case |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 voyages | nmod:poss |
| 26 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 voyages | amod |
| 27 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 29 voyages | punct |
| 28 | treasure | treasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 voyages | compound |
| 29 | voyages | voyage | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 one | nmod |
| 30 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 29 voyages | punct |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 visited | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | represent | gerund | trader Zheng not said here | the Ming dynasty | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot dynasty=Theme | ||||
| 2 | visit | past | trader Zheng | the East African coast | 1414 | on one of Malindi's last treasure voyages | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coast=Co-Agent | ||
| 3 | voyage | Malindi | nom voyage «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.
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