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title: Nicknamed the "Green City under the Sun", Nairobi is uniquely notabl… — Nairobi · tree and pragmatics
description: Nicknamed the "Green City under the Sun", Nairobi is uniquely notable for being the only capital city in the world that hosts a national park within its boundaries. Who acts: Nairobi, only capital city. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Nairobi» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Nairobi, sentence 4

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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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Nicknamed the "Green City under the Sun", Nairobi is uniquely notable for being the only capital city in the world that hosts a national park within its boundaries.

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**Who acts:** Nairobi, only capital city · **What happens:** nickname, be, host · **To what, where:** world, national park

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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, only capital city), 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:4
# text = Nicknamed the "Green City under the Sun", Nairobi is uniquely notable for being the only capital city in the world that hosts a national park within its boundaries.
1	Nicknamed	nickname	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	Green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	City	City	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	xcomp	_	_
6	under	under	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Sun	Sun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	Nairobi	Nairobi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
13	uniquely	uniquely	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	notable	notable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	conj	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
16	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	20	cop	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
18	only	only	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
19	capital	capital	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
24	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj	_	_
25	hosts	host	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	acl:relcl	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	national	national	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	park	park	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
29	within	within	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	boundaries	boundary	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **nickname** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | the Green City under the Sun *xcomp* | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | present | Nairobi |  |  |  |  | notable, uniquely *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | gerund |  |  |  | the world |  | for the only capital city | tree rules |
| 4 | **host** | present | the only capital city | a national park |  |  |  | within city's boundaries | vn captain-29.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent park=Beneficiary |

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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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