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title: And it is fair to say that the Government and the Municipality have… — Nairobi · tree and pragmatics
description: And it is fair to say that the Government and the Municipality have already bravely tackled the problem and that a town-plan ambitious enough to turn Nairobi into a thing of beauty has been slowly worked out, and much has already been done. Who acts: Government. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Nairobi» w
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# Nairobi, sentence 37

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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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And it is fair to say that the Government and the Municipality have already bravely tackled the problem and that a town-plan ambitious enough to turn Nairobi into a thing of beauty has been slowly worked out, and much has already been done.

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**Who acts:** Government · **What happens:** be, say, have, tackle, turn, work out · **To what, where:** problem, Nairobi, thing, town plan · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Government), 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:37
# text = And it is fair to say that the Government and the Municipality have already bravely tackled the problem and that a town-plan ambitious enough to turn Nairobi into a thing of beauty has been slowly worked out, and much has already been done.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	expl	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	csubj	_	_
7	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	6	obl	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	Municipality	Municipality	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
13	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
14	already	already	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
15	bravely	bravely	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	tackled	tackle	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	ccomp	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	problem	problem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
20	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	38	mark	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
22	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	plan	plan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nsubj:pass	_	_
25	ambitious	ambitious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
26	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
28	turn	turn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	advcl	_	_
29	Nairobi	Nairobi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
30	into	into	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	beauty	beauty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	_
35	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	38	aux	_	_
36	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	38	aux:pass	_	_
37	slowly	slowly	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
38	worked	work	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	conj	_	_
39	out	out	ADP	RP	_	38	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
42	much	much	ADV	RB	_	46	advmod	_	_
43	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	46	aux	_	_
44	already	already	ADV	RB	_	46	advmod	_	_
45	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	46	aux:pass	_	_
46	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | fair *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **have** | present | the Government and the Municipality *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **tackle** | past | the Government and the Municipality *not said here* | the problem |  |  |  | bravely *property* | vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent problem=Theme |
| 5 | **turn** | to-infinitive |  | Nairobi |  | a thing of beauty |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent nairobi=Theme into thing=Trajectory |
| 6 | **work out** | present · perfect · passive |  | a town plan |  |  |  | slowly *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
| 7 | **do** | present · perfect · passive | the Government and the Municipality *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V» |

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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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