Uganda, sentence 294
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 response to global condemnation the debate of the bill was delayed, but it was eventually passed on 20 December 2013 and President Museveni signed it on 24 February 2014.
Who acts: debate, Museveni · What happens: be, pass, sign, debate · To what, where: response, debate, 20, bill
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 (debate, Museveni), 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 response | case |
| 2 | response | response | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 delayed | obl |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 condemnation | case |
| 4 | global | global | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 condemnation | amod |
| 5 | condemnation | condemnation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 response | nmod |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 debate | det |
| 7 | debate | debate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 delayed | nsubj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 bill | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 bill | det |
| 10 | bill | bill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 debate | nmod |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 delayed | cop |
| 12 | delayed | delayed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 passed | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 passed | cc |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 passed | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 passed | aux:pass |
| 17 | eventually | eventually | ADV | _ | 18 passed | advmod |
| 18 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 delayed | conj |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 20 | case |
| 20 | 20 | 20 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 18 passed | obl |
| 21 | December | December | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 20 | nmod:unmarked |
| 22 | 2013 | 2013 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 20 20 | flat |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 signed | cc |
| 24 | President | President | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 Museveni | nmod:desc |
| 25 | Museveni | Museveni | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 signed | nsubj |
| 26 | signed | sign | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 passed | conj |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 signed | obj |
| 28 | on | on | ADP | _ | 30 February | case |
| 29 | 24 | 24 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 30 February | nummod |
| 30 | February | February | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 signed | obl |
| 31 | 2014 | 2014 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 30 February | flat |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 delayed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the debate of the bill | response to global condemnation | delayed property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | pass | past · passive | debate | 20 December | eventually property | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: subject=Theme on 20=Destination | |||
| 3 | sign | past | Museveni President | debate | february | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Destination | |||
| 4 | debate | the bill | nom debate «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.
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