Uganda, sentence 348
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 the 1950s, the British colonial regime encouraged some 500,000 subsistence farmers to join co-operatives.
Who acts: British colonial regime, 500,000 subsistence farmers · What happens: encourage, join · To what, where: 500,000 subsistence farmers, 1950s, co-operatives
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 (British colonial regime, 500,000 subsistence farmers), 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 | _ | 3 1950s | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 1950s | det |
| 3 | 1950s | 1950 | NOUN | Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card | 9 encouraged | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 1950s | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 regime | det |
| 6 | British | British | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 regime | amod |
| 7 | colonial | colonial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 regime | amod |
| 8 | regime | regime | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 encouraged | nsubj |
| 9 | encouraged | encourage | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 13 farmers | det |
| 11 | 500,000 | 500,000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 13 farmers | nummod |
| 12 | subsistence | subsistence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 farmers | compound |
| 13 | farmers | farmer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 encouraged | obj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 join | mark |
| 15 | join | join | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 encouraged | xcomp |
| 16 | co-operatives | co-operative | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 join | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 encouraged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | encourage | past | the British colonial regime | some 500,000 subsistence farmers | the 1950s | vn advise-37.9 «NP V NP how S_INF»: agent=Agent farmer=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | join not said to happen | to-infinitive | some 500,000 subsistence farmers not said here | co-operatives | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent co-operative=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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