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title: Zilizopendwa is a genre of local urban music that was recorded in th… — Kenya · tree and pragmatics
description: Zilizopendwa is a genre of local urban music that was recorded in the 1960s, 70s, and 80s by musicians such as Daudi Kabaka, Fadhili William, and Sukuma Bin Ongaro, and is particularly enjoyed by older people—having been popularised by the Kenya Broadcasting Corporation's Kiswahili service (formerly
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# Kenya, sentence 583

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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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Zilizopendwa is a genre of local urban music that was recorded in the 1960s, 70s, and 80s by musicians such as Daudi Kabaka, Fadhili William, and Sukuma Bin Ongaro, and is particularly enjoyed by older people—having been popularised by the Kenya Broadcasting Corporation's Kiswahili service (formerly called Voice of Kenya or VOK).

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**Who acts:** Zilizopendwa, older people, Kiswahili service, Broadcasting Corporation · **What happens:** be, record, enjoy, popularis, call, service · **To what, where:** genre, local urban music, 1960s, Sukuma, older people, Kiswahili service · **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 (Zilizopendwa, older people, Kiswahili service, Broadcasting Corporation), 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:583
# text = Zilizopendwa is a genre of local urban music that was recorded in the 1960s, 70s, and 80s by musicians such as Daudi Kabaka, Fadhili William, and Sukuma Bin Ongaro, and is particularly enjoyed by older people—having been popularised by the Kenya Broadcasting Corporation's Kiswahili service (formerly called Voice of Kenya or VOK).
1	Zilizopendwa	Zilizopendwa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	genre	genre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	local	local	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	urban	urban	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	music	music	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
9	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	recorded	record	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl:relcl	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	1960s	1960s	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	70s	70s	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	80s	80	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card	4	conj	_	_
20	by	by	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	musicians	musician	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nmod	_	_
22	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	24	case	_	_
23	as	as	ADP	IN	_	22	fixed	_	_
24	Daudi	Daudi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
25	Kabaka	Kabaka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	Fadhili	Fadhili	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	William	William	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	Sukuma	Sukuma	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
32	Bin	Bin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	flat	_	_
33	Ongaro	Ongaro	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
36	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	38	aux:pass	_	_
37	particularly	particularly	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
38	enjoyed	enjoy	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	31	acl	_	_
39	by	by	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	older	old	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	41	amod	_	_
41	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	45	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	having	have	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	45	aux	_	_
44	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	45	aux:pass	_	_
45	popularised	popularis	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	41	acl:relcl	_	_
46	by	by	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
47	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
48	Kenya	Kenya	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	49	compound	_	_
49	Broadcasting	Broadcasting	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	50	compound	_	_
50	Corporation	Corporation	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	53	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	's	's	PART	POS	_	50	case	_	_
52	Kiswahili	Kiswahili	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	53	compound	_	_
53	service	service	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	obl	_	_
54	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	56	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	formerly	formerly	ADV	RB	_	56	advmod	_	_
56	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	53	acl	_	_
57	Voice	Voice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	56	xcomp	_	_
58	of	of	ADP	IN	_	59	case	_	_
59	Kenya	Kenya	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	57	nmod	_	_
60	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	61	cc	_	_
61	VOK	VOK	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	57	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
62	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	56	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
63	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Zilizopendwa | a genre and 80s by musicians such Daudi and Fadhili William and Sukuma |  |  |  | of local urban music; 80s by musicians such Daudi and Fadhili William *conj*; Sukuma *conj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **record** | past · passive |  | local urban music |  | the 1960s and 70s |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in 1960s=Destination |
| 3 | **enjoy** | present · passive | older people | Sukuma *not said here* |  |  |  | particularly *property* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **popularis** | gerund · perfect · passive | the Broadcasting Corporation's Kiswahili service | older people *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **call** | participle |  | the Broadcasting Corporation's Kiswahili service *not said here* |  |  |  | Voice of Kenya or VOK *xcomp*; formerly *property* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **service** |  | the Broadcasting Corporation |  |  |  |  |  | nom service «act transitive»: poss=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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