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title: A colonial order of gender emerged where males dominated females. — Kenya · tree and pragmatics
description: A colonial order of gender emerged where males dominated females. Who acts: colonial order, males. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Kenya» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Kenya, sentence 526

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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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A colonial order of gender emerged where males dominated females.

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**Who acts:** colonial order, males · **What happens:** emerge, dominate, order · **To what, where:** females, gender

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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 (colonial order, males), 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:526
# text = A colonial order of gender emerged where males dominated females.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	colonial	colonial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	gender	gender	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	emerged	emerge	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	9	advmod	_	_
8	males	male	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
9	dominated	dominate	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
10	females	female	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **emerge** | participle | a colonial order of gender |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **dominate** | past | males | females |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme female=Co-Theme |
| 3 | **order** |  |  | gender |  |  |  |  | nom order «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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