Uganda, sentence 29
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.
Arab traders moved into the land from the Indian Ocean coast of East Africa in the 1830s for trade and commerce.
Who acts: Arab traders · What happens: move · To what, where: land
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 (Arab traders), 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 | Arab | Arab | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 traders | amod |
| 2 | traders | trader | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 moved | nsubj |
| 3 | moved | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | into | into | ADP | _ | 6 land | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 land | det |
| 6 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 moved | obl |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 coast | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 coast | det |
| 9 | Indian | Indian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 coast | amod |
| 10 | Ocean | Ocean | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 coast | compound |
| 11 | coast | coast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 moved | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Africa | case |
| 13 | East | East | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Africa | compound |
| 14 | Africa | Africa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 coast | nmod |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 1830s | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 1830s | det |
| 17 | 1830s | 1830 | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 moved | obl |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 trade | case |
| 19 | trade | trade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 1830s | nmod |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 commerce | cc |
| 21 | commerce | commerce | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 trade | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 moved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | move | past | Arab traders | the land | from the Indian Ocean coast of East Africa; in the 1830s for trade and commerce | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme into land=Source from coast=Trajectory in 1830=Destination |
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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