Uganda, sentence 47
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 1893, the Imperial British East Africa Company transferred its administration rights of territory consisting mainly of the Kingdom of Buganda to the British government.
Who acts: Imperial British Africa Company, territory · What happens: transfer, consist · To what, where: administration rights, 1893, Kingdom
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 (Imperial British Africa Company, territory), 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 1893 | case |
| 2 | 1893 | 1893 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 10 transferred | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 1893 | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Company | det |
| 5 | Imperial | imperial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 Company | amod |
| 6 | British | British | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 Company | amod |
| 7 | East | East | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Africa | compound |
| 8 | Africa | Africa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Company | compound |
| 9 | Company | Company | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 transferred | nsubj |
| 10 | transferred | transfer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 rights | nmod:poss |
| 12 | administration | administration | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 rights | compound |
| 13 | rights | right | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 transferred | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 territory | case |
| 15 | territory | territory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 rights | nmod |
| 16 | consisting | consist | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 territory | acl |
| 17 | mainly | mainly | ADV | _ | 20 Kingdom | advmod |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 Kingdom | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Kingdom | det |
| 20 | Kingdom | Kingdom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 consisting | obj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 Buganda | case |
| 22 | Buganda | Buganda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Kingdom | nmod |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 government | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 government | det |
| 25 | British | British | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 government | amod |
| 26 | government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 consisting | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 transferred | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | transfer | past | the Imperial British Africa Company | Company's administration rights of territory | 1893 | vn contribute-13.2-2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent right=Theme | |||
| 2 | consist | gerund | territory not said here | the Kingdom of Buganda | to the British government | tree rules |
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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