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title: After the death of the Masai Mbatian, the chief laibon (medicine man… — Kenya · tree and pragmatics
description: After the death of the Masai Mbatian, the chief laibon (medicine man), the Masai split into warring factions. Who acts: Masai, Masai Mbatian. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Kenya» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Kenya, sentence 94

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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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After the death of the Masai Mbatian, the chief laibon (medicine man), the Masai split into warring factions.

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**Who acts:** Masai, Masai Mbatian · **What happens:** split, die · **To what, where:** warring factions

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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 (Masai, Masai Mbatian), 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:94
# text = After the death of the Masai Mbatian, the chief laibon (medicine man), the Masai split into warring factions.
1	After	after	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	Masai	Masai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	Mbatian	Mbatian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	chief	chief	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	laibon	laibon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	_
12	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	medicine	medicine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	Masai	Masai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	split	split	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
20	into	into	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	warring	warring	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	factions	faction	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **split** | past | the Masai |  |  |  | after the death of the Masai Mbatian | into warring factions *result* | vn break-45.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Patient into faction=Result |
| 2 | **die** |  | the Masai Mbatian |  |  |  |  |  | nom death «event intransitive»: of=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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