Nairobi, sentence 18
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 name Nairobi comes from the Maasai expression meaning 'cool waters'. referring to the cold water stream which flowed through the area.
Who acts: name, Maasai expression, cold water stream · What happens: come, mean, refer, flow · To what, where: Maasai expression, cool waters, area
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 (name, Maasai expression, cold water stream), 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 | 2 name | det |
| 2 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 comes | nsubj |
| 3 | Nairobi | Nairobi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 name | appos |
| 4 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 expression | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 expression | det |
| 7 | Maasai | Maasai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 expression | compound |
| 8 | expression | expression | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 comes | obl |
| 9 | meaning | mean | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 expression | acl |
| 10 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 waters | punct |
| 11 | cool | cool | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 waters | amod |
| 12 | waters | water | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 meaning | obj |
| 13 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 waters | punct |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 referring | punct |
| 15 | referring | refer | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 meaning | advcl |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 stream | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 stream | det |
| 18 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 stream | amod |
| 19 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 stream | compound |
| 20 | stream | stream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 referring | obl |
| 21 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 flowed | nsubj |
| 22 | flowed | flow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 stream | acl:relcl |
| 23 | through | through | ADP | _ | 25 area | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 area | det |
| 25 | area | area | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 flowed | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 comes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | present | the name | the Maasai expression | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from expression=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | mean | gerund | the Maasai expression not said here | cool waters | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Topic | ||||
| 3 | refer | gerund | the Maasai expression not said here | to the cold water stream | vn relate-86.2-2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to stream=Co-Theme | ||||
| 4 | flow | past | the cold water stream | the area | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through area=Location |
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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