Nairobi, sentence 219
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.
Given this high population growth, owing itself both to urban migration and high birth rates, the economy has yet to catch up.
Who acts: high population growth, economy · What happens: give, owe, have, catch up · To what, where: class, urban migration
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 (high population growth, economy), 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 | Given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 growth | case |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 growth | nsubj |
| 3 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 growth | amod |
| 4 | population | population | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 growth | compound |
| 5 | growth | growth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 has | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 owing | punct |
| 7 | owing | owe | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 growth | acl |
| 8 | itself | itself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 7 owing | obj |
| 9 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 itself | appos |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 migration | case |
| 11 | urban | urban | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 migration | amod |
| 12 | migration | migration | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 owing | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 rates | cc |
| 14 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 rates | amod |
| 15 | birth | birth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 rates | compound |
| 16 | rates | rate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 migration | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 growth | punct |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 economy | det |
| 19 | economy | economy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 has | nsubj |
| 20 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 21 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 23 catch | advmod |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 catch | mark |
| 23 | catch | catch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 has | xcomp |
| 24 | up | up | ADP | _ | 23 catch | compound:prt |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 has | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | participle | vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 2 | owe | gerund | high population growth this not said here | class | to urban migration and high birth rates goal | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent itself=Theme to migration=Goal | |||
| 3 | have | present | the economy | give high population growth this | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | catch up | to-infinitive | the economy not said here | yet | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=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.
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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