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title: The university was chartered in 1985, offering mainly education-rela… — Nairobi · tree and pragmatics
description: The university was chartered in 1985, offering mainly education-related courses, but has since diversified, offering medicine, environmental studies, engineering, law, business, statistics, agriculture, and economics. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Nairobi» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Nairobi, sentence 341

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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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The university was chartered in 1985, offering mainly education-related courses, but has since diversified, offering medicine, environmental studies, engineering, law, business, statistics, agriculture, and economics.

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**What happens:** charter, offer, diversify · **To what, where:** university, 1985, related courses, medicine

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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: 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:341
# text = The university was chartered in 1985, offering mainly education-related courses, but has since diversified, offering medicine, environmental studies, engineering, law, business, statistics, agriculture, and economics.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	university	university	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	chartered	charter	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	1985	1985	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	offering	offer	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
9	mainly	mainly	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	education	education	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	related	related	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	courses	course	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
17	since	since	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	diversified	diversify	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	offering	offer	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	advcl	_	_
21	medicine	medicine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	environmental	environmental	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	studies	study	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	engineering	engineering	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
28	law	law	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
30	business	business	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
32	statistics	statistic	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
34	agriculture	agriculture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
37	economics	economics	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **charter** | past · passive |  | the university |  | 1985 |  | economics *obl* | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **offer** | gerund |  | related courses |  |  |  | mainly *property* | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent course=Theme |
| 3 | **diversify** | present · perfect |  |  |  |  |  | since *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **offer** | gerund |  | medicine |  |  |  | environmental studies and engineering and law and business and statistics and agriculture *obl* | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent medicine=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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