Nairobi, sentence 61
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 May 2017, President Uhuru Kenyatta inaugurated the Standard Gauge Railway, which connects Nairobi to Mombasa.
Who acts: Uhuru, Standard Gauge Railway · What happens: inaugurate, connect · To what, where: Standard Gauge Railway, 2017, Nairobi, Mombasa
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 (Uhuru, Standard Gauge Railway), 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 2017 | case |
| 2 | May | May | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 2017 | nmod:unmarked |
| 3 | 2017 | 2017 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 inaugurated | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 2017 | punct |
| 5 | President | President | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Uhuru | nmod:desc |
| 6 | Uhuru | Uhuru | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 inaugurated | nsubj |
| 7 | Kenyatta | Kenyatta | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Uhuru | flat |
| 8 | inaugurated | inaugurate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Railway | det |
| 10 | Standard | Standard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Railway | compound |
| 11 | Gauge | Gauge | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Railway | compound |
| 12 | Railway | Railway | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 inaugurated | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 connects | punct |
| 14 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 connects | nsubj |
| 15 | connects | connect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 Railway | acl:relcl |
| 16 | Nairobi | Nairobi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 connects | obj |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 Mombasa | case |
| 18 | Mombasa | Mombasa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 connects | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 inaugurated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | inaugurate | past | Uhuru President | the Standard Gauge Railway | 2017 May | tree rules | |||
| 2 | connect | present | the Standard Gauge Railway | Nairobi | Mombasa | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent nairobi=Patient to mombasa=Co-Patient |
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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