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title: Before Kenya got its independence, Somali ethnic people in present-d… — Kenya · tree and pragmatics
description: Before Kenya got its independence, Somali ethnic people in present-day Kenya in the areas of Northern Frontier Districts petitioned Her Majesty's Government not to be included in Kenya. Who acts: Kenya, Somali ethnic people. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Kenya» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Kenya, sentence 147

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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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Before Kenya got its independence, Somali ethnic people in present-day Kenya in the areas of Northern Frontier Districts petitioned Her Majesty's Government not to be included in Kenya.

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**Who acts:** Kenya, Somali ethnic people · **What happens:** get, petition, not include · **To what, where:** independence, Government, Kenya

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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: who acts (Kenya, Somali ethnic people), 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:147
# text = Before Kenya got its independence, Somali ethnic people in present-day Kenya in the areas of Northern Frontier Districts petitioned Her Majesty's Government not to be included in Kenya.
1	Before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	Kenya	Kenya	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	advcl	_	_
4	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	independence	independence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
7	Somali	somali	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	ethnic	ethnic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
11	present	present	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	Kenya	Kenya	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	areas	area	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	Northern	Northern	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	Frontier	Frontier	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	Districts	district	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	_
22	petitioned	petition	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
23	Her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	Majesty	Majesty	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	's	's	PART	POS	_	24	case	_	_
26	Government	Government	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
27	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	30	advmod	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
29	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	aux:pass	_	_
30	included	include	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	advcl	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	Kenya	Kenya	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | past | Kenya | independence's independence |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer independence=Stimulus |
| 2 | **petition** | past | Somali ethnic people in day Kenya in the areas of Frontier Districts | Kenya's Majesty's Government |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **include** | to-infinitive · passive | Somali ethnic people in day Kenya in the areas of Frontier Districts *not said here* |  |  |  |  | in Kenya *goal* | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP PP.goal»: in kenya=Goal |

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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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