Uganda, sentence 515
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.
Swahili is not favoured by the Bantu-speaking populations of the south and south-west of Uganda, but is an important lingua franca in the northern regions.
Who acts: speaking populations · What happens: not favour, speak, be · To what, where: Swahili, important lingua, northern regions · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (speaking populations), 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 | Swahili | swahili | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 favoured | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 favoured | aux:pass |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 favoured | advmod |
| 4 | favoured | favour | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 populations | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 populations | det |
| 7 | Bantu | Bantu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 speaking | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 Bantu | punct |
| 9 | speaking | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 populations | amod |
| 10 | populations | population | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 favoured | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 south | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 south | det |
| 13 | south | south | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 populations | nmod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 west | cc |
| 15 | south | south | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 west | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 south | punct |
| 17 | west | west | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 south | conj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 Uganda | case |
| 19 | Uganda | Uganda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 west | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 lingua | punct |
| 21 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 25 lingua | cc |
| 22 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 lingua | cop |
| 23 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 lingua | det |
| 24 | important | important | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 lingua | amod |
| 25 | lingua | lingua | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 favoured | obl |
| 26 | franca | franca | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 lingua | appos |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 regions | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 regions | det |
| 29 | northern | northern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 regions | amod |
| 30 | regions | region | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 lingua | nmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 favoured | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not favour | present · passive | the speaking populations of the south and south west of Uganda | Swahili | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | speak speech: other | gerund | Bantu compound | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a | present | a important lingua | the northern regions | franca appos | 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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