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title: In May 2017, President Uhuru Kenyatta inaugurated the Standard Gauge… — Nairobi · tree and pragmatics
description: In May 2017, President Uhuru Kenyatta inaugurated the Standard Gauge Railway, which connects Nairobi to Mombasa. Who acts: Uhuru, Standard Gauge Railway. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Nairobi» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Nairobi, sentence 61

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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 May 2017, President Uhuru Kenyatta inaugurated the Standard Gauge Railway, which connects Nairobi to Mombasa.

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**Who acts:** Uhuru, Standard Gauge Railway · **What happens:** inaugurate, connect · **To what, where:** Standard Gauge Railway, 2017, Nairobi, Mombasa

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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 (Uhuru, Standard Gauge Railway), 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:61
# text = In May 2017, President Uhuru Kenyatta inaugurated the Standard Gauge Railway, which connects Nairobi to Mombasa.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	May	May	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod:unmarked	_	_
3	2017	2017	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	Uhuru	Uhuru	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
7	Kenyatta	Kenyatta	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	_
8	inaugurated	inaugurate	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	Standard	Standard	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
11	Gauge	Gauge	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	Railway	Railway	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
15	connects	connect	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	_
16	Nairobi	Nairobi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	Mombasa	Mombasa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **inaugurate** | past | Uhuru  President | the Standard Gauge Railway |  | 2017  May |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **connect** | present | the Standard Gauge Railway | Nairobi | Mombasa |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent nairobi=Patient to mombasa=Co-Patient |

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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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