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title: The Catholic University of Eastern Africa located in Lang'ata suburb… — Nairobi · tree and pragmatics
description: The Catholic University of Eastern Africa located in Lang'ata suburb, obtained its "Letter of Interim Authority" in 1989. Who acts: Catholic University. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Nairobi» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Nairobi, sentence 352

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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 Catholic University of Eastern Africa located in Lang'ata suburb, obtained its "Letter of Interim Authority" in 1989.

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**Who acts:** Catholic University · **What happens:** locate, obtain · **To what, where:** Lang'ata suburb, Letter, 1989

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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 (Catholic University), 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:352
# text = The Catholic University of Eastern Africa located in Lang'ata suburb, obtained its "Letter of Interim Authority" in 1989.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Catholic	Catholic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	University	University	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	Eastern	Eastern	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	6	compound	_	_
6	Africa	Africa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	located	locate	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	Lang'ata	Lang'ata	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	suburb	suburb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	obtained	obtain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
13	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
14	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	Letter	Letter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	Interim	Interim	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	Authority	Authority	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	1989	1989	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **locate** | past | the Catholic University of Eastern Africa |  |  | Lang'ata suburb |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **obtain** | past | the Catholic University of Eastern Africa *not said here* | Hospital's Letter of Interim Authority |  | 1989 |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset letter=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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