Kampala, sentence 68
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.
On 11 July 2010, suicide bombers affiliated with al-Shabaab, a Sunni Islamist group based in Somalia, carried out two nearly simultaneous bombings in Kampala, killing 74 people.
Who acts: suicide bombers · What happens: affiliate, base, carry out, kill · To what, where: suicide bombers, Sunni Islamist group, Somalia, two simultaneous bombings, Kampala, 74 people
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 (suicide bombers), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 July | case |
| 2 | 11 | 11 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 July | nummod |
| 3 | July | July | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 carried | obl |
| 4 | 2010 | 2010 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 July | nmod:unmarked |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 bombers | punct |
| 6 | suicide | suicide | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 bombers | compound |
| 7 | bombers | bomber | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 carried | nsubj |
| 8 | affiliated | affiliate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 bombers | acl |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 al | case |
| 10 | al | Al | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 affiliated | obl |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 Shabaab | punct |
| 12 | Shabaab | Shabaab | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 al | flat |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 group | punct |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 group | det |
| 15 | Sunni | Sunni | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 group | amod |
| 16 | Islamist | Islamist | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 group | compound |
| 17 | group | group | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 al | appos |
| 18 | based | base | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 group | acl |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 Somalia | case |
| 20 | Somalia | Somalia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 based | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 bombers | punct |
| 22 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 23 | out | out | ADV | _ | 22 carried | advmod |
| 24 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 27 bombings | nummod |
| 25 | nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 26 simultaneous | advmod |
| 26 | simultaneous | simultaneous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 bombings | amod |
| 27 | bombings | bombing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 carried | obj |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 Kampala | case |
| 29 | Kampala | Kampala | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 bombings | nmod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 killing | punct |
| 31 | killing | kill | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 carried | advcl |
| 32 | 74 | 74 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 33 people | nummod |
| 33 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 killing | obj |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 carried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | affiliate | participle | suicide bombers not said here | with al | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Patient with al=Co-Patient | ||||
| 2 | base | participle | a Sunni Islamist group not said here | Somalia | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | carry out | past | suicide bombers | two simultaneous bombings | Kampala | july | out property | vn act-114 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bombing=Eventuality | |
| 4 | kill | gerund | suicide bombers not said here | 74 people | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Theme |
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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