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title: In 1921, Nairobi had 24,000 residents, of which circa 12,000 were na… — Nairobi · tree and pragmatics
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# Nairobi, sentence 32

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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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In 1921, Nairobi had 24,000 residents, of which circa 12,000 were native Africans.

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**Who acts:** Nairobi, 24,000 residents · **What happens:** have, be · **To what, where:** 24,000 residents, 1921, native Africans

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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 (Nairobi, 24,000 residents), 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:32
# text = In 1921, Nairobi had 24,000 residents, of which circa 12,000 were native Africans.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	1921	1921	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	Nairobi	Nairobi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	24,000	24000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	residents	resident	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
11	circa	circa	X	GW	_	10	aux	_	_
12	12,000	12,000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	flat	_	_
13	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
14	native	native	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	Africans	African	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | Nairobi | 24,000 residents and native Africans |  | 1921 |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent resident=Patient |
| 2 | **is a** | past | 24,000 residents and native Africans | native Africans |  |  |  |  | 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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