Kampala, sentence 76
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 second is Mengo Hill which was the then kibuga (capital) of Buganda kingdom at the start of British colonial rule.
Who acts: second, Mengo · What happens: be, start · To what, where: Mengo, kibuga, British colonial rule
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 (second, Mengo), 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 second | det |
| 2 | second | second | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Mengo | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 Mengo | cop |
| 4 | Mengo | Mengo | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | Hill | Hill | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Mengo | flat |
| 6 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 kibuga | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 kibuga | cop |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 kibuga | det |
| 9 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 kibuga | advmod |
| 10 | kibuga | kibuga | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Mengo | acl:relcl |
| 11 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 12 capital | punct |
| 12 | capital | capital | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 kibuga | appos |
| 13 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 12 capital | punct |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 kingdom | case |
| 15 | Buganda | Buganda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 kingdom | compound |
| 16 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 kibuga | nmod |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 start | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 start | det |
| 19 | start | start | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 kingdom | nmod |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 rule | case |
| 21 | British | British | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 rule | amod |
| 22 | colonial | colonial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 rule | amod |
| 23 | rule | rule | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 start | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 Mengo | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the second | Mengo | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | Mengo | the kibuga | then | of Buganda kingdom at the start of British colonial rule; capital appos | tree rules | ||
| 3 | start | British colonial rule | nom start «event 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.
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