Nairobi, sentence 4
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.
Nicknamed the "Green City under the Sun", Nairobi is uniquely notable for being the only capital city in the world that hosts a national park within its boundaries.
Who acts: Nairobi, only capital city · What happens: nickname, be, host · To what, where: world, national park
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 (Nairobi, only capital city), 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 | Nicknamed | nickname | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 City | det |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 City | punct |
| 4 | Green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 City | amod |
| 5 | City | City | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Nicknamed | xcomp |
| 6 | under | under | ADP | _ | 8 Sun | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Sun | det |
| 8 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 City | nmod |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 Sun | punct |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 notable | punct |
| 11 | Nairobi | Nairobi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 notable | nsubj |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 notable | cop |
| 13 | uniquely | uniquely | ADV | _ | 14 notable | advmod |
| 14 | notable | notable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 Sun | conj |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 city | case |
| 16 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 city | cop |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 city | det |
| 18 | only | only | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 city | amod |
| 19 | capital | capital | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 city | compound |
| 20 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 notable | obl |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 world | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 world | det |
| 23 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 city | nmod |
| 24 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 hosts | nsubj |
| 25 | hosts | host | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 city | acl:relcl |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 park | det |
| 27 | national | national | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 park | amod |
| 28 | park | park | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 hosts | obj |
| 29 | within | within | ADP | _ | 31 boundaries | case |
| 30 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 boundaries | nmod:poss |
| 31 | boundaries | boundary | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 hosts | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nicknamed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nickname | participle | the Green City under the Sun xcomp | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | present | Nairobi | notable, uniquely property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | gerund | the world | for the only capital city | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | host | present | the only capital city | a national park | within city's boundaries | vn captain-29.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent park=Beneficiary |
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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