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title: As one of Nairobi's oldest and most expansive urban green spaces, sp… — Nairobi · tree and pragmatics
description: As one of Nairobi's oldest and most expansive urban green spaces, spanning over 60 hectares, City Park holds considerable ecological value. Who acts: oldest expansive urban green spaces, City. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Nairobi» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Nairobi, sentence 131

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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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As one of Nairobi's oldest and most expansive urban green spaces, spanning over 60 hectares, City Park holds considerable ecological value.

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**Who acts:** oldest expansive urban green spaces, City · **What happens:** span, hold · **To what, where:** 60 hectares, considerable ecological value

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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 (oldest expansive urban green spaces, City), 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:131
# text = As one of Nairobi's oldest and most expansive urban green spaces, spanning over 60 hectares, City Park holds considerable ecological value.
1	As	as	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	obl	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
4	Nairobi	Nairobi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	oldest	old	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	12	amod	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
8	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	9	advmod	_	_
9	expansive	expansive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
10	urban	urban	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
11	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	spaces	space	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	spanning	span	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	acl	_	_
15	over	over	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	60	60	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
17	hectares	hectare	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
19	City	City	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
20	Park	Park	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	flat	_	_
21	holds	hold	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
22	considerable	considerable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
23	ecological	ecological	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	value	value	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **span** | gerund | Nairobi's oldest expansive urban green spaces *not said here* | 60 hectares |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme hectare=Co-Theme |
| 2 | **hold** | present | City | considerable ecological value |  |  |  | as one of Nairobi's oldest expansive urban green spaces | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent value=Theme |

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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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