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title: In November 2012, President Mwai Kibaki launched the Syokimau Rail S… — Nairobi · tree and pragmatics
description: In November 2012, President Mwai Kibaki launched the Syokimau Rail Service, marking a major milestone in the history of railway development in Kenya. Who acts: Mwai. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Nairobi» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Nairobi, sentence 405

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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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In November 2012, President Mwai Kibaki launched the Syokimau Rail Service, marking a major milestone in the history of railway development in Kenya.

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**Who acts:** Mwai · **What happens:** launch, mark · **To what, where:** Syokimau Rail Service, 2012, major milestone, history

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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 (Mwai), 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:405
# text = In November 2012, President Mwai Kibaki launched the Syokimau Rail Service, marking a major milestone in the history of railway development in Kenya.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	November	November	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod:unmarked	_	_
3	2012	2012	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	President	President	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod:desc	_	_
6	Mwai	Mwai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
7	Kibaki	Kibaki	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	_
8	launched	launch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	Syokimau	Syokimau	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
11	Rail	Rail	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	Service	Service	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	marking	mark	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	major	major	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	milestone	milestone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	history	history	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	railway	railway	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	development	development	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	Kenya	Kenya	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **launch** | past | Mwai  President | the Syokimau Rail Service |  | 2012  November |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent service=Theme in 2012=Destination |
| 2 | **mark** | gerund | Mwai  President *not said here* | a major milestone |  | the history of railway development in Kenya |  |  | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent milestone=Theme in history=Destination |

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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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