Uganda, sentence 150
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.
The Kabaka was often regarded as aloof and unresponsive to advice from the younger Buganda politicians who better understood the new post-Independence politics, unlike the traditionalists who were ambivalent to what was going on as long as their traditional benefits were maintained.
Who acts: younger Buganda politicians, traditionalists · What happens: regard, understand, be, go on, maintain · To what, where: Kabaka, younger Buganda politicians, new post-Independence politics, traditional benefits
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 (younger Buganda politicians, traditionalists), 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 Kabaka | det |
| 2 | Kabaka | Kabaka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 regarded | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 regarded | aux:pass |
| 4 | often | often | ADV | _ | 5 regarded | advmod |
| 5 | regarded | regard | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | as | as | ADP | _ | 7 aloof | case |
| 7 | aloof | aloof | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 regarded | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 unresponsive | cc |
| 9 | unresponsive | unresponsive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 aloof | conj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 advice | case |
| 11 | advice | advice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 regarded | obl |
| 12 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 politicians | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 politicians | det |
| 14 | younger | young | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 16 politicians | amod |
| 15 | Buganda | Buganda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 politicians | compound |
| 16 | politicians | politician | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 regarded | obl |
| 17 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 understood | nsubj |
| 18 | better | well | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 19 understood | advmod |
| 19 | understood | understand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 politicians | acl:relcl |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 politics | det |
| 21 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 politics | amod |
| 22 | post-Independence | post-independence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 politics | compound |
| 23 | politics | politics | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 19 understood | obj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 traditionalists | punct |
| 25 | unlike | unlike | ADP | _ | 27 traditionalists | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 traditionalists | det |
| 27 | traditionalists | traditionalist | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 regarded | conj |
| 28 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 30 ambivalent | nsubj |
| 29 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 ambivalent | cop |
| 30 | ambivalent | ambivalent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 traditionalists | acl:relcl |
| 31 | to | to | ADP | _ | 32 what | case |
| 32 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 30 ambivalent | obl |
| 33 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 going | aux |
| 34 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 32 what | acl:relcl |
| 35 | on | on | ADP | _ | 34 going | compound:prt |
| 36 | as | as | ADV | _ | 37 long | advmod |
| 37 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 34 going | advmod |
| 38 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 43 maintained | mark |
| 39 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 41 benefits | nmod:poss |
| 40 | traditional | traditional | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 benefits | amod |
| 41 | benefits | benefit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 43 maintained | nsubj |
| 42 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 43 maintained | aux:pass |
| 43 | maintained | maintain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 37 long | advcl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 regarded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | regard | past · passive | the Kabaka | the younger Buganda politicians | as aloof; to advice; the traditionalists conj; often property | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP PP.value»: subject=Theme as aloof=Value | |||
| 2 | understand | past | the younger Buganda politicians | the new post-Independence politics | well property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer politics=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | is | past | the traditionalists | to the traditionalists; ambivalent property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | go on | past · progressive | long property | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | maintain | past · passive | traditionalists's traditional benefits | vn declare-29.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=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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