Uganda, sentence 301
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.
As of 2019, adoption of LGBT rights on the African continent was slow but progressing with South Africa being the only country where same sex marriages are recognised.
Who acts: adoption, progressing · What happens: be, progress, recognise, adopt · To what, where: only country, same sex marriages, LGBT rights
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 (adoption, progressing), 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 | As | as | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 3 2019 | case |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 1 As | fixed |
| 3 | 2019 | 2019 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 14 slow | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 adoption | punct |
| 5 | adoption | adoption | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 slow | nsubj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 rights | case |
| 7 | LGBT | lgbt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 rights | compound |
| 8 | rights | right | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 adoption | nmod |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 continent | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 continent | det |
| 11 | African | African | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 continent | amod |
| 12 | continent | continent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 rights | nmod |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 slow | cop |
| 14 | slow | slow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 23 country | cc |
| 16 | progressing | progress | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 23 country | csubj |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 Africa | case |
| 18 | South | South | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Africa | compound |
| 19 | Africa | Africa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 progressing | obl |
| 20 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 23 country | cop |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 country | det |
| 22 | only | only | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 country | amod |
| 23 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 slow | conj |
| 24 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 29 recognised | advmod |
| 25 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 marriages | amod |
| 26 | sex | sex | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 marriages | compound |
| 27 | marriages | marriage | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 recognised | nsubj:pass |
| 28 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 recognised | aux:pass |
| 29 | recognised | recognise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 country | acl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 slow | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | adoption of LGBT rights on the African continent | as 2019; slow property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | progress | gerund | with South Africa | vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | is a | gerund | progressing | the only country | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | recognise | present · passive | same sex marriages | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | adopt | LGBT rights on the African continent | nom adoption «act 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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