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title: Two million wildebeest migrate a distance of 2900 km from the Sereng… — Kenya · tree and pragmatics
description: Two million wildebeest migrate a distance of 2900 km from the Serengeti in neighbouring Tanzania to the Masai Mara in Kenya, in a constant clockwise fashion, searching for food and water supplies. Who acts: million wildebeest, constant clockwise fashion. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Kenya» with its de
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# Kenya, sentence 261

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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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Two million wildebeest migrate a distance of 2900 km from the Serengeti in neighbouring Tanzania to the Masai Mara in Kenya, in a constant clockwise fashion, searching for food and water supplies.

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**Who acts:** million wildebeest, constant clockwise fashion · **What happens:** migrate, neighbour, search · **To what, where:** distance, Tanzania

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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 (million wildebeest, constant clockwise fashion), 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:261
# text = Two million wildebeest migrate a distance of 2900 km from the Serengeti in neighbouring Tanzania to the Masai Mara in Kenya, in a constant clockwise fashion, searching for food and water supplies.
1	Two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	compound	_	_
2	million	million	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	wildebeest	wildebeest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	migrate	migrate	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	distance	distance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	2900	2900	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	km	km	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	from	from	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	Serengeti	Serengeti	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
13	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
14	neighbouring	neighbour	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
15	Tanzania	Tanzania	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	Masai	Masai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	Mara	Mara	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	Kenya	Kenya	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
25	constant	constant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
26	clockwise	clockwise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	fashion	fashion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
29	searching	search	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	27	acl	_	_
30	for	for	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
33	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	_
34	supplies	supplies	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	31	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **migrate** | present | million wildebeest | a distance of 2900 km from the Serengeti |  |  |  | a constant clockwise fashion *parataxis* | tree rules |
| 2 | **neighbour** | gerund | million wildebeest *not said here* | Tanzania |  |  |  | to the Masai Mara in Kenya | tree rules |
| 3 | **search** | gerund | a constant clockwise fashion *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for food and water supplies | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.theme NP.location»: agent=Agent for food=Theme |

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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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