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title: The park was to be built over by former President Daniel arap Moi, w… — Nairobi · tree and pragmatics
description: The park was to be built over by former President Daniel arap Moi, who wanted the 62-storey headquarters of his party, the Kenya African National Union, situated in the park. Who acts: former Daniel. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Nairobi» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Nairobi, sentence 113

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From Wikipedia, [«Nairobi»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nairobi), 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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The park was to be built over by former President Daniel arap Moi, who wanted the 62-storey headquarters of his party, the Kenya African National Union, situated in the park.

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**Who acts:** former Daniel · **What happens:** build over, want, situate · **To what, where:** park, storey headquarters

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Nairobi». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (former Daniel), 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:Nairobi:113
# text = The park was to be built over by former President Daniel arap Moi, who wanted the 62-storey headquarters of his party, the Kenya African National Union, situated in the park.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	park	park	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	built	build	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	over	over	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
8	by	by	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	former	former	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	President	President	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod:desc	_	_
11	Daniel	Daniel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
12	arap	arap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod:desc	_	_
13	Moi	Moi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
16	wanted	want	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
18	62	62	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	20	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	storey	storey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	headquarters	headquarters	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	16	obj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	party	party	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
27	Kenya	Kenya	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	African	African	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
29	National	National	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	Union	Union	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
32	situated	situate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	parataxis	_	_
33	in	in	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	park	park	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **build over** | past · passive | former Daniel  President and the African National Union | the park |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Product |
| 2 | **want** | past | former Daniel  President and the African National Union | the storey headquarters of park's party |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot headquarters=Theme |
| 3 | **situate** | participle |  |  |  | the park |  |  | vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in park=Destination |

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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, «Nairobi», 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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