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title: This was seen as the climax of a very undemocratic regime and led to… — Kenya · tree and pragmatics
description: This was seen as the climax of a very undemocratic regime and led to widespread agitation for constitutional reform. Who acts: undemocratic regime. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Kenya» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Kenya, sentence 182

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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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This was seen as the climax of a very undemocratic regime and led to widespread agitation for constitutional reform.

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**Who acts:** undemocratic regime · **What happens:** see, lead, climax · **To what, where:** This

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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 (undemocratic regime), 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:182
# text = This was seen as the climax of a very undemocratic regime and led to widespread agitation for constitutional reform.
1	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	as	as	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	climax	climax	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	very	very	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	undemocratic	undemocratic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	regime	regime	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	led	lead	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	widespread	widespread	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	agitation	agitation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	for	for	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	constitutional	constitutional	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	reform	reform	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past · passive |  | This |  |  |  | as the climax of a undemocratic regime | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus as climax=Attribute |
| 2 | **lead** | past |  |  |  |  |  | to widespread agitation; for constitutional reform | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to agitation=Patient |
| 3 | **climax** |  | a undemocratic regime |  |  |  |  |  | nom climax «event intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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