Nairobi, sentence 37
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.
And it is fair to say that the Government and the Municipality have already bravely tackled the problem and that a town-plan ambitious enough to turn Nairobi into a thing of beauty has been slowly worked out, and much has already been done.
Who acts: Government · What happens: be, say, have, tackle, turn, work out · To what, where: problem, Nairobi, thing, town plan · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Government), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 fair | cc |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 fair | expl |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 fair | cop |
| 4 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 say | mark |
| 6 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 fair | csubj |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 6 say | obl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Government | det |
| 9 | Government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 that | appos |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 Municipality | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Municipality | det |
| 12 | Municipality | Municipality | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Government | conj |
| 13 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 Government | acl:relcl |
| 14 | already | already | ADV | _ | 16 tackled | advmod |
| 15 | bravely | bravely | ADV | _ | 16 tackled | advmod |
| 16 | tackled | tackle | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 have | ccomp |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 problem | det |
| 18 | problem | problem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 tackled | obj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 worked | cc |
| 20 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 38 worked | mark |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 plan | det |
| 22 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 plan | compound |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 town | punct |
| 24 | plan | plan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 worked | nsubj:pass |
| 25 | ambitious | ambitious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 plan | amod |
| 26 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 25 ambitious | advmod |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 turn | mark |
| 28 | turn | turn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 ambitious | advcl |
| 29 | Nairobi | Nairobi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 turn | obj |
| 30 | into | into | ADP | _ | 32 thing | case |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 thing | det |
| 32 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 turn | obl |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 beauty | case |
| 34 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 thing | nmod |
| 35 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 38 worked | aux |
| 36 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 38 worked | aux:pass |
| 37 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 38 worked | advmod |
| 38 | worked | work | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 problem | conj |
| 39 | out | out | ADP | _ | 38 worked | compound:prt |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 done | punct |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 done | cc |
| 42 | much | much | ADV | _ | 46 done | advmod |
| 43 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 46 done | aux |
| 44 | already | already | ADV | _ | 46 done | advmod |
| 45 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 46 done | aux:pass |
| 46 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 tackled | conj |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 fair | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | fair property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | to-infinitive | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | have | present | the Government and the Municipality not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | tackle | past | the Government and the Municipality not said here | the problem | bravely property | vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent problem=Theme | |||
| 5 | turn | to-infinitive | Nairobi | a thing of beauty | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent nairobi=Theme into thing=Trajectory | ||||
| 6 | work out | present · perfect · passive | a town plan | slowly property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | ||||
| 7 | do | present · perfect · passive | the Government and the Municipality not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V» |
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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