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title: More than 80,000 Kikuyu were held in detention camps without trial,… — Kenya · tree and pragmatics
description: More than 80,000 Kikuyu were held in detention camps without trial, often subject to brutal treatment. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Kenya» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Kenya, sentence 141

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From Wikipedia, [«Kenya»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenya), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.

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More than 80,000 Kikuyu were held in detention camps without trial, often subject to brutal treatment.

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**What happens:** hold, subject · **To what, where:** 80,000, detention camps

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Kenya». 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.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = wikipedia:Kenya:141
# text = More than 80,000 Kikuyu were held in detention camps without trial, often subject to brutal treatment.
1	More	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV	3	advmod	_	_
2	than	than	ADP	IN	_	1	fixed	_	_
3	80,000	80000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	Kikuyu	Kikuyu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	held	hold	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	detention	detention	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	camps	camp	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
10	without	without	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	trial	trial	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	often	often	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	subject	subject	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	brutal	brutal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	treatment	treatment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hold** | past · passive |  | 80,000 |  | detention camps |  | without trial; Kikuyu *nsubj* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme in camp=Location |
| 2 | **subject** | present |  |  |  |  |  | to brutal treatment; often *property* | tree rules |

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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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**Text:** the English Wikipedia, «Kenya», 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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