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title: Nilotic-speaking pastoralists began migrating into Kenya from the Ni… — Kenya · tree and pragmatics
description: Nilotic-speaking pastoralists began migrating into Kenya from the Nile Valley and the Ethiopian Highlands as early as 2000 BC. Who acts: speaking pastoralists. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Kenya» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Kenya, sentence 58

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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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Nilotic-speaking pastoralists began migrating into Kenya from the Nile Valley and the Ethiopian Highlands as early as 2000 BC.

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**Who acts:** speaking pastoralists · **What happens:** speak, begin, migrate · **To what, where:** Nile Valley, Kenya · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (speaking pastoralists), 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:58
# text = Nilotic-speaking pastoralists began migrating into Kenya from the Nile Valley and the Ethiopian Highlands as early as 2000 BC.
1	Nilotic	Nilotic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	speaking	speak	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	amod	_	_
4	pastoralists	pastoralist	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	migrating	migrate	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	xcomp	_	_
7	into	into	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Kenya	Kenya	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
9	from	from	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	Nile	Nile	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	Valley	Valley	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	Ethiopian	ethiopian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	Highlands	highland	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	_
17	as	as	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	early	early	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	20	advmod	_	_
19	as	as	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	2000	2000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	obl	_	_
21	BC	BC	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **speak** *speech: other* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | Nilotic *compound* | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **begin** | past | speaking pastoralists |  |  | the Nile Valley and the Ethiopian Highlands |  | as 2000  BC | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **migrate** | gerund | speaking pastoralists *not said here* |  |  | Kenya |  |  | tree rules |

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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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