Uganda, sentence 263
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Burdensome and corrupt registration procedures (i.e. requiring recommendations from government officials; annual re-registration), unreasonable regulation of operations (i.e. requiring government notification prior to making contact with individuals in NGO's area of interest), and the precondition that all foreign funds be passed through the Bank of Uganda, among other things, are severely limiting the output of the NGO sector.
Who acts: Burdensome registration procedures, unreasonable regulation · What happens: require, make, pass, limit, regulate · To what, where: recommendations, government officials, government notification, foreign funds, Bank, output
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 (Burdensome registration procedures, unreasonable regulation), 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 | Burdensome | burdensome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 procedures | amod |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 corrupt | cc |
| 3 | corrupt | corrupt | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Burdensome | conj |
| 4 | registration | registration | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 procedures | compound |
| 5 | procedures | procedure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 62 limiting | nsubj |
| 6 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 8 requiring | punct |
| 7 | i.e. | i.e. | ADV | _ | 8 requiring | advmod |
| 8 | requiring | require | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 procedures | acl |
| 9 | recommendations | recommendation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 requiring | obj |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 officials | case |
| 11 | government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 officials | compound |
| 12 | officials | official | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 requiring | obl |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 re-registration | punct |
| 14 | annual | annual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 re-registration | amod |
| 15 | re-registration | re-registration | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 procedures | conj |
| 16 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 15 re-registration | punct |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 regulation | punct |
| 18 | unreasonable | unreasonable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 regulation | amod |
| 19 | regulation | regulation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 re-registration | conj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 operations | case |
| 21 | operations | operation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 regulation | nmod |
| 22 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 24 requiring | punct |
| 23 | i.e. | i.e. | ADV | _ | 24 requiring | advmod |
| 24 | requiring | require | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 regulation | acl |
| 25 | government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 notification | compound |
| 26 | notification | notification | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 requiring | obj |
| 27 | prior | prior | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 30 contact | case |
| 28 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 prior | fixed |
| 29 | making | make | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 30 contact | amod |
| 30 | contact | contact | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 requiring | obl |
| 31 | with | with | ADP | _ | 32 individuals | case |
| 32 | individuals | individual | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 contact | nmod |
| 33 | in | in | ADP | _ | 36 area | case |
| 34 | NGO | NGO | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 area | nmod:poss |
| 35 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 34 NGO | case |
| 36 | area | area | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 contact | nmod |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 interest | case |
| 38 | interest | interest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 area | nmod |
| 39 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 24 requiring | punct |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 precondition | punct |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 precondition | cc |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 precondition | det |
| 43 | precondition | precondition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 re-registration | conj |
| 44 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 49 passed | obj |
| 45 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 47 funds | det |
| 46 | foreign | foreign | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 47 funds | amod |
| 47 | funds | fund | NOUN | Number=Plur | 49 passed | nsubj:pass |
| 48 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 49 passed | aux:pass |
| 49 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 43 precondition | acl:relcl |
| 50 | through | through | ADP | _ | 52 Bank | case |
| 51 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 52 Bank | det |
| 52 | Bank | Bank | PROPN | Number=Sing | 49 passed | obl |
| 53 | of | of | ADP | _ | 54 Uganda | case |
| 54 | Uganda | Uganda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 52 Bank | nmod |
| 55 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 58 things | punct |
| 56 | among | among | ADP | _ | 58 things | case |
| 57 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 58 things | amod |
| 58 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 49 passed | obl |
| 59 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 procedures | punct |
| 60 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 62 limiting | aux |
| 61 | severely | severely | ADV | _ | 62 limiting | advmod |
| 62 | limiting | limit | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 63 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 64 output | det |
| 64 | output | output | NOUN | Number=Sing | 62 limiting | obj |
| 65 | of | of | ADP | _ | 68 sector | case |
| 66 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 68 sector | det |
| 67 | NGO | NGO | PROPN | Number=Sing | 68 sector | compound |
| 68 | sector | sector | NOUN | Number=Sing | 64 output | nmod |
| 69 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 62 limiting | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | require | gerund | Burdensome registration procedures and annual re-registration and unreasonable regulation of operations and the precondition not said here | recommendations | government officials | i.e. property | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Theme recommendation=Precondition from official=Source | ||
| 2 | require | gerund | unreasonable regulation of operations not said here | government notification | prior making contact with individuals in NGO's area of interest; i.e. property | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme notification=Precondition | |||
| 3 | make | gerund | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||||
| 4 | pass | infinitive · passive | all foreign funds | the Bank of Uganda | among other things; the precondition obj | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient that=Theme | |||
| 5 | limit | present · progressive | Burdensome registration procedures and annual re-registration and unreasonable regulation of operations and the precondition | the output of the NGO sector | severely property | vn limit-76 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer output=Patient | |||
| 6 | regulate | operations | nom regulation «communication 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.
Text: the English Wikipedia, «Uganda», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. Tree: Mova's own parse, CC BY-SA 4.0 as the text is. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the article read in order, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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