Uganda, sentence 159
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.
In 1966, following a power struggle between the Obote-led government and King Muteesa, Obote suspended the constitution and removed the ceremonial president and vice-president.
Who acts: Obote · What happens: follow, lead, suspend, remove · To what, where: power struggle, led government, Obote, constitution, 1966, ceremonial president
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 (Obote), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 1966 | case |
| 2 | 1966 | 1966 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 19 suspended | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 1966 | punct |
| 4 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 1966 | acl |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 struggle | det |
| 6 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 struggle | compound |
| 7 | struggle | struggle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 following | obj |
| 8 | between | between | ADP | _ | 13 government | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 government | det |
| 10 | Obote | Obote | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 led | obl:unmarked |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 Obote | punct |
| 12 | led | lead | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 government | amod |
| 13 | government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 struggle | nmod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 King | cc |
| 15 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 government | appos |
| 16 | Muteesa | Muteesa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 King | flat |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 1966 | punct |
| 18 | Obote | Obote | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 suspended | nsubj |
| 19 | suspended | suspend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 constitution | det |
| 21 | constitution | constitution | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 suspended | obj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 removed | cc |
| 23 | removed | remove | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 suspended | conj |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 president | det |
| 25 | ceremonial | ceremonial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 president | amod |
| 26 | president | president | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 removed | obj |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 vice-president | cc |
| 28 | vice-president | vice-president | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 president | conj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 suspended | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | gerund | a power struggle | the led government | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent struggle=Theme between government=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | lead | participle | Obote | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition | |||||
| 3 | suspend | past | Obote | the constitution | 1966 | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent constitution=Theme in 1966=Destination | |||
| 4 | remove | past | Obote not said here | the ceremonial president and vice-president | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent president=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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