Nairobi, sentence 405
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.
In November 2012, President Mwai Kibaki launched the Syokimau Rail Service, marking a major milestone in the history of railway development in Kenya.
Who acts: Mwai · What happens: launch, mark · To what, where: Syokimau Rail Service, 2012, major milestone, history
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 (Mwai), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 2012 | case |
| 2 | November | November | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 2012 | nmod:unmarked |
| 3 | 2012 | 2012 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 launched | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 2012 | punct |
| 5 | President | President | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Mwai | nmod:desc |
| 6 | Mwai | Mwai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 launched | nsubj |
| 7 | Kibaki | Kibaki | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Mwai | flat |
| 8 | launched | launch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Service | det |
| 10 | Syokimau | Syokimau | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Service | compound |
| 11 | Rail | Rail | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Service | compound |
| 12 | Service | Service | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 launched | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 marking | punct |
| 14 | marking | mark | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 launched | advcl |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 milestone | det |
| 16 | major | major | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 milestone | amod |
| 17 | milestone | milestone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 marking | obj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 history | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 history | det |
| 20 | history | history | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 milestone | nmod |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 development | case |
| 22 | railway | railway | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 development | compound |
| 23 | development | development | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 history | nmod |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 Kenya | case |
| 25 | Kenya | Kenya | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 development | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 launched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | launch | past | Mwai President | the Syokimau Rail Service | 2012 November | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent service=Theme in 2012=Destination | |||
| 2 | mark | gerund | Mwai President not said here | a major milestone | the history of railway development in Kenya | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent milestone=Theme in history=Destination |
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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