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title: In July 2015, Obama visited Kenya, the first American president to v… — Kenya · tree and pragmatics
description: In July 2015, Obama visited Kenya, the first American president to visit the country while in office. Who acts: Obama. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Kenya» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Kenya, sentence 292

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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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In July 2015, Obama visited Kenya, the first American president to visit the country while in office.

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**Who acts:** Obama · **What happens:** visit · **To what, where:** Kenya, country

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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 (Obama), 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:292
# text = In July 2015, Obama visited Kenya, the first American president to visit the country while in office.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	July	July	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
3	2015	2015	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
5	Obama	Obama	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	visited	visit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	Kenya	Kenya	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	12	amod	_	_
11	American	American	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	president	president	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	visit	visit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	office	office	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **visit** | past | Obama | Kenya |  |  | july |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kenya=Co-Agent |
| 2 | **visit** | to-infinitive | Obama *not said here* | the country |  |  |  | office *advcl* | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent country=Co-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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