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title: The 50.4-kilometre road was built in three phases: Uhuru Highway to… — Nairobi · tree and pragmatics
description: The 50.4-kilometre road was built in three phases: Uhuru Highway to Muthaiga Roundabout; Muthaiga Roundabout to Kenyatta University and; Kenyatta University to Thika Town. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Nairobi» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Nairobi, sentence 60

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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 50.4-kilometre road was built in three phases: Uhuru Highway to Muthaiga Roundabout; Muthaiga Roundabout to Kenyatta University and; Kenyatta University to Thika Town.

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**What happens:** build · **To what, where:** kilometre road, three phases

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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:60
# text = The 50.4-kilometre road was built in three phases: Uhuru Highway to Muthaiga Roundabout; Muthaiga Roundabout to Kenyatta University and; Kenyatta University to Thika Town.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	50.4	50.4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	kilometre	kilometre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	built	build	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	phases	phase	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
12	Uhuru	Uhuru	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	Highway	Highway	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	Muthaiga	Muthaiga	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	Roundabout	Roundabout	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	Muthaiga	Muthaiga	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	Roundabout	Roundabout	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	Kenyatta	Kenyatta	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	University	University	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
25	Kenyatta	Kenyatta	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	University	University	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	Thika	Thika	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	Town	Town	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **build** | past · passive |  | the kilometre road |  | three phases |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |

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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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