Uganda, sentence 117
From Wikipedia, «Uganda», 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.
At the time, there was a tendency to perceive central government and security forces as dominated by "northerners," particularly the Acholi who through the UPC had significant access to government positions at the national level.
Who acts: tendency, northerners · What happens: be, perceive, dominate, have · To what, where: central government, significant access, national level
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Uganda». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tendency, northerners), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 time | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 was | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 time | punct |
| 5 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 6 was | expl |
| 6 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 tendency | det |
| 8 | tendency | tendency | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 was | nsubj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 perceive | mark |
| 10 | perceive | perceive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 tendency | acl |
| 11 | central | central | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 government | amod |
| 12 | government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 perceive | obj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 forces | cc |
| 14 | security | security | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 forces | compound |
| 15 | forces | force | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 government | conj |
| 16 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 17 dominated | mark |
| 17 | dominated | dominate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 perceive | advcl |
| 18 | by | by | ADP | _ | 20 northerners | case |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 northerners | punct |
| 20 | northerners | northerner | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 dominated | obl:agent |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 Acholi | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 Acholi | punct |
| 23 | particularly | particularly | ADV | _ | 25 Acholi | advmod |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 Acholi | det |
| 25 | Acholi | Acholi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 northerners | nmod |
| 26 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 30 had | nsubj |
| 27 | through | through | ADP | _ | 29 UPC | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 UPC | det |
| 29 | UPC | UPC | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 had | nsubj |
| 30 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 northerners | acl:relcl |
| 31 | significant | significant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 access | amod |
| 32 | access | access | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 had | obj |
| 33 | to | to | ADP | _ | 35 positions | case |
| 34 | government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 positions | compound |
| 35 | positions | position | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 had | obl |
| 36 | at | at | ADP | _ | 39 level | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 level | det |
| 38 | national | national | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 level | amod |
| 39 | level | level | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 had | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | a tendency | there | time | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | perceive | to-infinitive | a tendency not said here | central government and security forces | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer government=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | dominate | participle | a tendency not said here | northerners the Acholi obl:agent | vn contiguous_location-47.8-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | have | past | northerners the Acholi | significant access | the national level | to government positions; the UPC nsubj | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent access=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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