Kampala, sentence 9

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.

Kampala originally referred to only the present-day Old Kampala hill, on whose summit Fort Lugard was located, and the initial headquarters of the British colonial authorities in the soon to be Uganda Protectorate.

Who acts: Kampala · What happens: refer, locate, be · To what, where: initial headquarters, Fort, Uganda Protectorate

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 (Kampala), 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	Kampala	Kampala	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 referred	nsubj
2	originally	originally	ADV	_	3 referred	advmod
3	referred	refer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	12 hill	case
5	only	only	ADV	_	12 hill	advmod
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 hill	det
7	present	present	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 day	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 present	punct
9	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 Old	obl:unmarked
10	Old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 hill	amod
11	Kampala	Kampala	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 hill	compound
12	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 referred	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 located	punct
14	on	on	SCONJ	_	20 located	mark
15	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	16 summit	nmod:poss
16	summit	summit	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 Fort	nmod:desc
17	Fort	Fort	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 located	nsubj:pass
18	Lugard	Lugard	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 Fort	flat
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 located	aux:pass
20	located	locate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 referred	advcl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 headquarters	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 headquarters	cc
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 headquarters	det
24	initial	initial	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 headquarters	amod
25	headquarters	headquarters	NOUN	Number=Ptan	3 referred	obl
26	of	of	ADP	_	30 authorities	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 authorities	det
28	British	British	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 authorities	amod
29	colonial	colonial	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 authorities	amod
30	authorities	authority	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 headquarters	nmod
31	in	in	ADP	_	37 Protectorate	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 Protectorate	det
33	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	37 Protectorate	advmod
34	to	to	PART	_	37 Protectorate	mark
35	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	37 Protectorate	cop
36	Uganda	Uganda	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 Protectorate	compound
37	Protectorate	Protectorate	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 authorities	nmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 referred	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	refer	past	Kampala	the initial headquarters of the British colonial authorities		to the Old Kampala hill; originally property	vn relate-86.2-2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to hill=Co-Theme
2	locate	past · passive		Fort Fort Fort's summit's summit			tree rules
3	is	to-infinitive			the Uganda Protectorate	soon property	tree rules

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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Kampala, sentence 9