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Nairobi, sentence 113

From Wikipedia, «Nairobi», 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 park was to be built over by former President Daniel arap Moi, who wanted the 62-storey headquarters of his party, the Kenya African National Union, situated in the park.

Who acts: former Daniel · What happens: build over, want, situate · To what, where: park, storey headquarters

This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Nairobi». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (former Daniel), 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

detnsubj:passaux:passmarkaux:passcompound:prtcaseamodnmod:descoblnmod:descflatpunctnsubjacl:relcldetnummodpunctcompoundobjcasenmod:possnmodpunctdetcompoundcompoundamodconjpunctparataxiscasedetoblpunctrootTheDETparkNOUNwasAUXtoPARTbeAUXbuiltVERBoverADPbyADPformerADJPresidentPROPNDanielPROPNarapNOUNMoiPROPN,PUNCTwhoPRONwantedVERBtheDET62NUM-PUNCTstoreyNOUNheadquartersNOUNofADPhisPRONpartyNOUN,PUNCTtheDETKenyaPROPNAfricanPROPNNationalADJUnionPROPN,PUNCTsituatedVERBinADPtheDETparkNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ThetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art2 parkdet
2parkparkNOUNNumber=Sing6 builtnsubj:pass
3wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin6 builtaux:pass
4totoPART_6 builtmark
5bebeAUXVerbForm=Inf6 builtaux:pass
6builtbuildVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Passrootroot
7overoverADP_6 builtcompound:prt
8bybyADP_11 Danielcase
9formerformerADJDegree=Pos11 Danielamod
10PresidentPresidentPROPNNumber=Sing11 Danielnmod:desc
11DanielDanielPROPNNumber=Sing6 builtobl
12araparapNOUNNumber=Sing13 Moinmod:desc
13MoiMoiPROPNNumber=Sing11 Danielflat
14,,PUNCT_16 wantedpunct
15whowhoPRONPronType=Rel16 wantednsubj
16wantedwantVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin11 Danielacl:relcl
17thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art21 headquartersdet
186262NUMNumForm=Digit NumType=Card20 storeynummod
19--PUNCT_18 62punct
20storeystoreyNOUNNumber=Sing21 headquarterscompound
21headquartersheadquartersNOUNNumber=Ptan16 wantedobj
22ofofADP_24 partycase
23hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs24 partynmod:poss
24partypartyNOUNNumber=Sing21 headquartersnmod
25,,PUNCT_30 Unionpunct
26thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art30 Uniondet
27KenyaKenyaPROPNNumber=Sing28 Africancompound
28AfricanAfricanPROPNNumber=Sing30 Unioncompound
29NationalNationalADJDegree=Pos30 Unionamod
30UnionUnionPROPNNumber=Sing11 Danielconj
31,,PUNCT_32 situatedpunct
32situatedsituateVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass6 builtparataxis
33ininADP_35 parkcase
34thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art35 parkdet
35parkparkNOUNNumber=Sing32 situatedobl
36..PUNCT_6 builtpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1build overpast · passiveformer Daniel President and the African National Unionthe parkvn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Product
2wantpastformer Daniel President and the African National Unionthe storey headquarters of park's partyvn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot headquarters=Theme
3situateparticiplethe parkvn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in park=Destination

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, «Nairobi», 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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