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title: United States International University – Nairobi was originally a br… — Nairobi · tree and pragmatics
description: United States International University – Nairobi was originally a branch of the United States International University, but became a fully autonomous university in 2005. Who acts: Nairobi, United States. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Nairobi» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Nairobi, sentence 347

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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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United States International University – Nairobi was originally a branch of the United States International University, but became a fully autonomous university in 2005.

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**Who acts:** Nairobi, United States · **What happens:** be, become · **To what, where:** branch, autonomous university, 2005

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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, United States), 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:347
# text = United States International University – Nairobi was originally a branch of the United States International University, but became a fully autonomous university in 2005.
1	United	United	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	States	State	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
3	International	International	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	University	University	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
5	–	-	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
6	Nairobi	Nairobi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
8	originally	originally	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	branch	branch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	United	United	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	States	State	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	_
15	International	International	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	University	University	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
21	fully	fully	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	autonomous	autonomous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	university	university	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	xcomp	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	2005	2005	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | Nairobi | a branch |  |  |  | of the United States and International University; originally *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **become** | past | United States and International University | a autonomous university |  |  |  | in 2005 *result* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in 2005=Result |

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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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