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title: Malindi also welcomed the Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama in 1498. — Kenya · tree and pragmatics
description: Malindi also welcomed the Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama in 1498. Who acts: Malindi. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Kenya» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Kenya, sentence 86

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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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Malindi also welcomed the Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama in 1498.

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**Who acts:** Malindi · **What happens:** welcome · **To what, where:** Portuguese explorer, 1498

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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 (Malindi), 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:86
# text = Malindi also welcomed the Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama in 1498.
1	Malindi	Malindi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	also	also	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	welcomed	welcome	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	Portuguese	portuguese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	explorer	explorer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	Vasco	Vasco	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
8	da	Da	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	Gama	Gama	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	1498	1498	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **welcome** | past | Malindi | the Portuguese explorer |  | 1498 |  |  | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent explorer=Theme in 1498=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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