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title: Musical group Sauti Sol performed for U.S. President Barack Obama wh… — Nairobi · tree and pragmatics
description: Musical group Sauti Sol performed for U.S. President Barack Obama when he was in the city for the 2015 Global Entrepreneurship Summit. Who acts: Sauti. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Nairobi» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Nairobi, sentence 290

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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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Musical group Sauti Sol performed for U.S. President Barack Obama when he was in the city for the 2015 Global Entrepreneurship Summit.

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**Who acts:** Sauti · **What happens:** perform, be · **To what, where:** city

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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 (Sauti), 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:290
# text = Musical group Sauti Sol performed for U.S. President Barack Obama when he was in the city for the 2015 Global Entrepreneurship Summit.
1	Musical	musical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	group	group	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod:desc	_	_
3	Sauti	Sauti	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	Sol	Sol	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	flat	_	_
5	performed	perform	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	U.S.	U.S.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	President	President	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod:desc	_	_
9	Barack	Barack	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	Obama	Obama	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
11	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	16	advmod	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
17	for	for	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
19	2015	2015	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	22	nummod	_	_
20	Global	global	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
21	Entrepreneurship	entrepreneurship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	Summit	summit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **perform** | past | Sauti  Musical group |  |  |  |  | for Barack Obama  U.S. President | vn performance-26.7 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for obama=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **is** | past | Sauti |  |  | the city |  | for the 2015 Global Entrepreneurship Summit | tree rules |

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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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