Nairobi, sentence 36
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.
Maybe one day Nairobi will be laid out with tarred roads, with avenues of flowering trees, flanked by noble buildings; with open spaces and stately squares; a cathedral worthy of faith and country; museums and art; theatres and public offices.
What happens: lay out, tar, flower, flank · To what, where: Nairobi, avenues
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: 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 | Maybe | maybe | ADV | _ | 7 laid | advmod |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 day | nummod |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 laid | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | Nairobi | Nairobi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 laid | nsubj |
| 5 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 laid | aux |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 laid | aux:pass |
| 7 | laid | lay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | out | out | ADP | _ | 7 laid | compound:prt |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 roads | case |
| 10 | tarred | tar | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 roads | amod |
| 11 | roads | road | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 laid | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 avenues | punct |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 avenues | case |
| 14 | avenues | avenue | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 roads | conj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 trees | case |
| 16 | flowering | flower | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 trees | amod |
| 17 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 avenues | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 flanked | punct |
| 19 | flanked | flank | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 avenues | acl |
| 20 | by | by | ADP | _ | 22 buildings | case |
| 21 | noble | noble | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 buildings | amod |
| 22 | buildings | building | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 flanked | obl |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 spaces | punct |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 spaces | case |
| 25 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 spaces | amod |
| 26 | spaces | space | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 laid | obl |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 squares | cc |
| 28 | stately | stately | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 squares | amod |
| 29 | squares | square | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 spaces | conj |
| 30 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 33 worthy | punct |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 worthy | det |
| 32 | cathedral | cathedral | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 worthy | amod |
| 33 | worthy | worthy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 laid | obl |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 faith | case |
| 35 | faith | faith | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 worthy | nmod |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 country | cc |
| 37 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 faith | conj |
| 38 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 39 museums | punct |
| 39 | museums | museum | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 worthy | conj |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 art | cc |
| 41 | art | art | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 museums | conj |
| 42 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 43 theatres | punct |
| 43 | theatres | theatre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 worthy | conj |
| 44 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 offices | cc |
| 45 | public | public | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 offices | amod |
| 46 | offices | office | NOUN | Number=Plur | 43 theatres | conj |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 laid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lay out | future · passive | Nairobi | day | with tarred roads and avenues of flowering trees; with open spaces and stately squares; a cathedral worthy of faith and country and museums and art and theatres and public offices obl; maybe property | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Result | |||
| 2 | tar | participle | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | flower | gerund | vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | flank | participle | avenues of flowering trees not said here | by noble buildings | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
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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