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# Nairobi, sentence 20

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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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Whitehouse, chief engineer of the railway, favoured the site as an ideal resting place due to its high elevation, temperate climate, adequate water supply and being situated before the steep ascent of the Limuru escarpments.

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**Who acts:** Whitehouse, site · **What happens:** favour, situate, elevate · **To what, where:** site, steep ascent

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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 (Whitehouse, site), 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:20
# text = Whitehouse, chief engineer of the railway, favoured the site as an ideal resting place due to its high elevation, temperate climate, adequate water supply and being situated before the steep ascent of the Limuru escarpments.
1	Whitehouse	Whitehouse	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	chief	chief	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	engineer	engineer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	railway	railway	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
9	favoured	favour	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	site	site	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	as	as	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
13	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
14	ideal	ideal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
15	resting	resting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
17	due	due	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	21	case	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	fixed	_	_
19	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
20	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	elevation	elevation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	temperate	temperate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	climate	climate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	adequate	adequate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
27	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	supply	supply	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
30	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	31	aux:pass	_	_
31	situated	situate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	conj	_	_
32	before	before	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	steep	steep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	ascent	ascent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
38	Limuru	Limuru	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	39	compound	_	_
39	escarpments	escarpment	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **favour** | past | Whitehouse | the site |  |  |  | as a ideal resting place; due site's high elevation and temperate climate and adequate water supply | tree rules |
| 2 | **situate** | gerund · passive | Whitehouse *not said here* |  |  | the steep ascent of the Limuru escarpments |  |  | vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: before ascent=Destination |
| 3 | **elevate** |  | site |  |  |  |  |  | nom elevation «event transitive»: poss=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, «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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