Nairobi, sentence 20
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Whitehouse, chief engineer of the railway, favoured the site as an ideal resting place due to its high elevation, temperate climate, adequate water supply and being situated before the steep ascent of the Limuru escarpments.
Who acts: Whitehouse, site · What happens: favour, situate, elevate · To what, where: site, steep ascent
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 (Whitehouse, site), 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 | Whitehouse | Whitehouse | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 favoured | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 engineer | punct |
| 3 | chief | chief | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 engineer | amod |
| 4 | engineer | engineer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Whitehouse | appos |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 railway | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 railway | det |
| 7 | railway | railway | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 engineer | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Whitehouse | punct |
| 9 | favoured | favour | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 site | det |
| 11 | site | site | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 favoured | obj |
| 12 | as | as | ADP | _ | 16 place | case |
| 13 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 place | det |
| 14 | ideal | ideal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 place | amod |
| 15 | resting | resting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 place | compound |
| 16 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 favoured | obl |
| 17 | due | due | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 21 elevation | case |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 due | fixed |
| 19 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 elevation | nmod:poss |
| 20 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 elevation | amod |
| 21 | elevation | elevation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 favoured | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 climate | punct |
| 23 | temperate | temperate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 climate | amod |
| 24 | climate | climate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 elevation | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 supply | punct |
| 26 | adequate | adequate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 supply | amod |
| 27 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 supply | compound |
| 28 | supply | supply | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 elevation | conj |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 situated | cc |
| 30 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 31 situated | aux:pass |
| 31 | situated | situate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 elevation | conj |
| 32 | before | before | ADP | _ | 35 ascent | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 ascent | det |
| 34 | steep | steep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 ascent | amod |
| 35 | ascent | ascent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 situated | obl |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 escarpments | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 escarpments | det |
| 38 | Limuru | Limuru | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 escarpments | compound |
| 39 | escarpments | escarpment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 ascent | nmod |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 favoured | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | favour | past | Whitehouse | the site | as a ideal resting place; due site's high elevation and temperate climate and adequate water supply | tree rules | |||
| 2 | situate | gerund · passive | Whitehouse not said here | the steep ascent of the Limuru escarpments | vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: before ascent=Destination | ||||
| 3 | elevate | site | nom elevation «event transitive»: poss=agent |
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