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title: Pigeon peas are very drought-resistant, so can be grown in areas wit… — Kenya · tree and pragmatics
description: Pigeon peas are very drought-resistant, so can be grown in areas with less than 650 mm annual rainfall. Who acts: Pigeon peas. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Kenya» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Kenya, sentence 370

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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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Pigeon peas are very drought-resistant, so can be grown in areas with less than 650 mm annual rainfall.

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**Who acts:** Pigeon peas · **What happens:** be, grow · **To what, where:** drought resistant, areas

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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 (Pigeon peas), 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:370
# text = Pigeon peas are very drought-resistant, so can be grown in areas with less than 650 mm annual rainfall.
1	Pigeon	pigeon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	peas	pea	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
4	very	very	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
5	drought	drought	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	resistant	resistant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	so	so	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
10	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	conj	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	areas	area	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
16	less	less	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV	18	advmod	_	_
17	than	than	ADP	IN	_	16	fixed	_	_
18	650	650	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	19	nummod	_	_
19	mm	mm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
20	annual	annual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	rainfall	rainfall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Pigeon peas | drought resistant |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **grow** | can · passive | Pigeon peas *not said here* |  |  | areas |  | with 650 mm and annual rainfall | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: in area=Location |

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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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