--- title: The Kenyan Ministry of Sports has tried to stop the defections, but… — Kenya · tree and pragmatics description: The Kenyan Ministry of Sports has tried to stop the defections, but they have continued anyway, with Bernard Lagat being the latest, choosing to represent the United States. Who acts: Kenyan Ministry, Bernard. 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The Kenyan Ministry of Sports has tried to stop the defections, but they have continued anyway, with Bernard Lagat being the latest, choosing to represent the United States. **Who acts:** Kenyan Ministry, Bernard · **What happens:** try, stop, continue, be, choose, represent · **To what, where:** defections, sports, United States 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 (Kenyan Ministry, Bernard), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:600 # text = The Kenyan Ministry of Sports has tried to stop the defections, but they have continued anyway, with Bernard Lagat being the latest, choosing to represent the United States. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 Kenyan Kenyan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 Ministry Ministry PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 Sports Sport PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 3 nmod _ _ 6 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 7 tried try VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 8 to to PART TO _ 9 mark _ _ 9 stop stop VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 xcomp _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 defections defection NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 13 but but CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 14 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj:pass _ _ 15 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 16 continued continue VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 conj _ _ 17 anyway anyway ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 with with ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 Bernard Bernard PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 21 Lagat Lagat PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 flat _ _ 22 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 24 cop _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 latest late ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 16 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 26 choosing choose VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 24 advcl _ _ 27 to to PART TO _ 28 mark _ _ 28 represent represent VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 26 xcomp _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 30 United United ADJ NNP Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 States State PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 28 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 32 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **try** | present · perfect | the Kenyan Ministry of Sports | | | | | | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 2 | **stop** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the Kenyan Ministry of Sports *not said here* | the defections | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality defection=Eventuality | | 3 | **continue** | present · perfect · passive | | sports *= sport* | | | | anyway *property* | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Theme | | 4 | **is** | gerund | Bernard | | | | | late *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **choose** | gerund | Bernard *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **represent** | to-infinitive | Bernard *not said here* | the United States | | | | | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot state=Theme | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 599](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Kenya/599/) - next →: [sentence 601](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Kenya/601/) - ↑ back to [Kenya](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Kenya/)