Kampala, sentence 158
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.
The protest, which called on workers to walk to work to highlight the increased cost of transport in Uganda, was disrupted by police, who fired tear gas and arrested three-time presidential candidate Kizza Besigye and Democratic Party leader Norbert Mao.
Who acts: protest, police · What happens: call, walk, work, highlight, increase, disrupt · To what, where: workers, increased cost, protest, tear gas, transport · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (protest, police), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 protest | det |
| 2 | protest | protest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 disrupted | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 called | punct |
| 4 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 called | nsubj |
| 5 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 protest | acl:relcl |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 workers | case |
| 7 | workers | worker | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 called | obl |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 walk | mark |
| 9 | walk | walk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 called | xcomp |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 work | mark |
| 11 | work | work | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 walk | advcl |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 highlight | mark |
| 13 | highlight | highlight | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 work | advcl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 cost | det |
| 15 | increased | increase | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 cost | amod |
| 16 | cost | cost | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 highlight | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 transport | case |
| 18 | transport | transport | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 cost | nmod |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 Uganda | case |
| 20 | Uganda | Uganda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 transport | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 protest | punct |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 disrupted | aux:pass |
| 23 | disrupted | disrupt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 24 | by | by | ADP | _ | 25 police | case |
| 25 | police | police | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 disrupted | obl:agent |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 fired | punct |
| 27 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 fired | nsubj |
| 28 | fired | fire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 police | acl:relcl |
| 29 | tear | tear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 gas | compound |
| 30 | gas | gas | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 fired | obj |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 arrested | cc |
| 32 | arrested | arrest | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 fired | conj |
| 33 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 35 time | nummod |
| 34 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 33 three | punct |
| 35 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 arrested | obj |
| 36 | presidential | presidential | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 candidate | amod |
| 37 | candidate | candidate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 Kizza | nmod:desc |
| 38 | Kizza | Kizza | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 time | appos |
| 39 | Besigye | Besigye | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 Kizza | flat |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 leader | cc |
| 41 | Democratic | Democratic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 Party | amod |
| 42 | Party | Party | PROPN | Number=Sing | 43 leader | compound |
| 43 | leader | leader | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 Kizza | conj |
| 44 | Norbert | Norbert | PROPN | Number=Sing | 43 leader | appos |
| 45 | Mao | Mao | PROPN | Number=Sing | 44 Norbert | flat |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 23 disrupted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | past | the protest | workers | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | walk | to-infinitive | the protest not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | work | to-infinitive | the protest not said here | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | highlight | to-infinitive | the protest not said here | the increased cost of transport in Uganda | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cost=Patient | ||||
| 5 | increase | participle | vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 6 | disrupt | past · passive | police | the protest | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | fire | past | police | tear gas | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gas=Theme | ||||
| 8 | arrest | past | police not said here | time | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 9 | cost | transport in Uganda | 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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