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title: The Technical University of Kenya (formerly Kenya Polytechnic) is th… — Nairobi · tree and pragmatics
description: The Technical University of Kenya (formerly Kenya Polytechnic) is the only Technical University in the country. Who acts: Technical University. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Nairobi» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Nairobi, sentence 354

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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 Technical University of Kenya (formerly Kenya Polytechnic) is the only Technical University in the country.

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**Who acts:** Technical University · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** only Technical University, country

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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 (Technical 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:354
# text = The Technical University of Kenya (formerly Kenya Polytechnic) is the only Technical University in the country.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Technical	technical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	University	University	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Kenya	Kenya	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	formerly	formerly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	Kenya	Kenya	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
9	Polytechnic	Polytechnic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	8	punct	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
13	only	only	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
14	Technical	technical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	University	University	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the Technical University of Kenya | the only Technical University |  | the country |  |  | 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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