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title: Karen Blixen lived in the Nairobi area from 1917 to 1931. — Nairobi · tree and pragmatics
description: Karen Blixen lived in the Nairobi area from 1917 to 1931. Who acts: Karen. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Nairobi» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Nairobi, sentence 242

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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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Karen Blixen lived in the Nairobi area from 1917 to 1931.

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**Who acts:** Karen · **What happens:** live · **To what, where:** Nairobi area

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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 (Karen), 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:242
# text = Karen Blixen lived in the Nairobi area from 1917 to 1931.
1	Karen	Karen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	Blixen	Blixen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	Nairobi	Nairobi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	area	area	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	1917	1917	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	obl	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	1931	1931	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | past | Karen |  |  | the Nairobi area |  | from 1917 to 1931 | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in area=Location |

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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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