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title: Maybe one day Nairobi will be laid out with tarred roads, with avenu… — Nairobi · tree and pragmatics
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# Nairobi, sentence 36

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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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Maybe one day Nairobi will be laid out with tarred roads, with avenues of flowering trees, flanked by noble buildings; with open spaces and stately squares; a cathedral worthy of faith and country; museums and art; theatres and public offices.

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**What happens:** lay out, tar, flower, flank · **To what, where:** Nairobi, avenues

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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:36
# text = Maybe one day Nairobi will be laid out with tarred roads, with avenues of flowering trees, flanked by noble buildings; with open spaces and stately squares; a cathedral worthy of faith and country; museums and art; theatres and public offices.
1	Maybe	maybe	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
2	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl:unmarked	_	_
4	Nairobi	Nairobi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	laid	lay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	out	out	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	tarred	tar	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	amod	_	_
11	roads	road	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	avenues	avenue	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	flowering	flower	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	17	amod	_	_
17	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	flanked	flank	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	acl	_	_
20	by	by	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	noble	noble	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	buildings	building	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	_
24	with	with	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	spaces	space	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
28	stately	stately	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	squares	square	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	33	punct	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	cathedral	cathedral	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	worthy	worthy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	faith	faith	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
37	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
39	museums	museum	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	conj	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
41	art	art	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	43	punct	_	_
43	theatres	theatre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	conj	_	_
44	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
45	public	public	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	46	amod	_	_
46	offices	office	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	43	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lay out** | future · passive |  | Nairobi |  |  | day | with tarred roads and avenues of flowering trees; with open spaces and stately squares; a cathedral worthy of faith and country and museums and art and theatres and public offices *obl*; maybe *property* | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Result |
| 2 | **tar** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **flower** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn entity\_specific\_modes\_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **flank** | participle |  | avenues of flowering trees *not said here* |  |  |  | by noble buildings | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=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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