Kampala, sentence 155
From Wikipedia, «Kampala», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.
In April 2011, the pressure group Activists for Change (A4C) held its first Walk to Work protest near Kampala, in response to a comment by President Museveni on the increased cost of fuel, which had risen by 50 percent between January and April 2011.
Who acts: group Activists, 50 percent, Rail, President · What happens: hold, increase, rise, walk, comment, cost · To what, where: first Walk, response, fuel, increased cost
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Kampala». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (group Activists, 50 percent, Rail, President), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 April | case |
| 2 | April | April | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 held | obl |
| 3 | 2011 | 2011 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 April | nmod:unmarked |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 April | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Activists | det |
| 6 | pressure | pressure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 group | compound |
| 7 | group | group | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Activists | compound |
| 8 | Activists | activist | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 held | nsubj |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 Change | case |
| 10 | Change | Change | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Activists | nmod |
| 11 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 12 A4C | punct |
| 12 | A4C | A4C | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Change | appos |
| 13 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 12 A4C | punct |
| 14 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 Walk | nmod:poss |
| 16 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 17 Walk | amod |
| 17 | Walk | walk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 held | obj |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 protest | case |
| 19 | Work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 protest | compound |
| 20 | protest | protest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 held | obl |
| 21 | near | near | ADP | _ | 22 Kampala | case |
| 22 | Kampala | Kampala | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 protest | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 response | punct |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 response | case |
| 25 | response | response | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 held | obl |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 comment | case |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 comment | det |
| 28 | comment | comment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 response | nmod |
| 29 | by | by | ADP | _ | 30 President | case |
| 30 | President | President | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 comment | nmod |
| 31 | Museveni | Museveni | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 President | flat |
| 32 | on | on | ADP | _ | 35 cost | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 cost | det |
| 34 | increased | increase | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 35 cost | amod |
| 35 | cost | cost | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 comment | nmod |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 fuel | case |
| 37 | fuel | fuel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 cost | nmod |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 risen | punct |
| 39 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 41 risen | nsubj:pass |
| 40 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 41 risen | aux |
| 41 | risen | rise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 37 fuel | acl:relcl |
| 42 | by | by | ADP | _ | 44 percent | case |
| 43 | 50 | 50 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 44 percent | nummod |
| 44 | percent | percent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 risen | obl |
| 45 | between | between | ADP | _ | 46 January | case |
| 46 | January | January | PROPN | Number=Sing | 44 percent | nmod |
| 47 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 48 April | cc |
| 48 | April | April | PROPN | Number=Sing | 46 January | conj |
| 49 | 2011 | 2011 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 48 April | nmod:unmarked |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 held | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold | past | the group Activists for Change | Rail's first Walk | response to a comment by President on the increased cost of fuel | april | to Work protest near Kampala | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent walk=Theme in response=Location | |
| 2 | increase | participle | vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 3 | rise | past · perfect · passive | 50 percent between January and April 2011 | fuel | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location subject=Theme | ||||
| 4 | walk | Rail | nom walk «act transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 5 | comment | President | the increased cost of fuel | nom comment «communication transitive»: by=agent on=place | |||||
| 6 | cost | fuel | nom cost «possession transitive»: of=patient |
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.
Text: the English Wikipedia, «Kampala», 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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