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title: It was previously known as the Mazingira Park, and was reopened in A… — Nairobi · tree and pragmatics
description: It was previously known as the Mazingira Park, and was reopened in August 2020 by President Uhuru Kenyatta after renovation by the Kenya Forest Service, Kenya Forestry Research Institute (KEFRI), and National Environment Management Authority (NEMA). Who acts: Uhuru. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Nairob
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# Nairobi, sentence 123

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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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It was previously known as the Mazingira Park, and was reopened in August 2020 by President Uhuru Kenyatta after renovation by the Kenya Forest Service, Kenya Forestry Research Institute (KEFRI), and National Environment Management Authority (NEMA).

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**Who acts:** Uhuru · **What happens:** know, reopen · **To what, where:** section

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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 (Uhuru), 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:123
# text = It was previously known as the Mazingira Park, and was reopened in August 2020 by President Uhuru Kenyatta after renovation by the Kenya Forest Service, Kenya Forestry Research Institute (KEFRI), and National Environment Management Authority (NEMA).
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
3	previously	previously	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	as	as	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	Mazingira	Mazingira	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	Park	Park	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	reopened	reopen	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	August	August	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
15	2020	2020	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	14	flat	_	_
16	by	by	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	President	President	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod:desc	_	_
18	Uhuru	Uhuru	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obl:agent	_	_
19	Kenyatta	Kenyatta	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	flat	_	_
20	after	after	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	renovation	renovation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
22	by	by	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
24	Kenya	Kenya	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	Forest	Forest	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	Service	Service	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
28	Kenya	Kenya	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	_
29	Forestry	Forestry	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
30	Research	Research	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	Institute	Institute	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	_
32	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	KEFRI	KEFRI	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
37	National	national	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	Environment	Environment	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	40	compound	_	_
39	Management	Management	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	40	compound	_	_
40	Authority	Authority	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
41	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	42	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	NEMA	NEMA	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	40	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	42	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | past · passive |  | section |  |  |  | as the Mazingira Park; Environment Management Authority *obl*; previously *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus as park=Attribute |
| 2 | **reopen** | past · passive | Uhuru  President |  |  |  | after renovation; august | by the Forest Service and Kenya and Forestry Research Institute | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

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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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