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title: In other areas there are dry, arid, and semi-arid climates, as well… — Kenya · tree and pragmatics
description: In other areas there are dry, arid, and semi-arid climates, as well as absolute deserts (such as the Chalbi Desert and Nyiri Desert). A sentence of Wikipedia's «Kenya» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Kenya, sentence 9

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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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In other areas there are dry, arid, and semi-arid climates, as well as absolute deserts (such as the Chalbi Desert and Nyiri Desert).

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**What happens:** be · **To what, where:** other areas

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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: 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:9
# text = In other areas there are dry, arid, and semi-arid climates, as well as absolute deserts (such as the Chalbi Desert and Nyiri Desert).
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	areas	area	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
4	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	5	expl	_	_
5	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	dry	dry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	arid	arid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	semi-arid	semi-arid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	climates	climate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	as	as	ADV	RB	ExtPos=CCONJ	18	cc	_	_
15	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	14	fixed	_	_
16	as	as	ADP	IN	_	14	fixed	_	_
17	absolute	absolute	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	deserts	desert	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	_
19	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	24	case	_	_
21	as	as	ADP	IN	_	20	fixed	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	Chalbi	Chalbi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	Desert	Desert	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	appos	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	Nyiri	Nyiri	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	_
27	Desert	Desert	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present |  |  |  | other areas |  | semi-arid climates as absolute deserts *obl*; dry *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 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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