Uganda, sentence 592
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.
The Uganda Communications Commission (UCC) prepared regulations starting in 2014 that required Ugandan television to broadcast 70 per cent Ugandan content and of this, 40 per cent to be independent productions.
Who acts: prepared regulations · What happens: start, require, broadcast, be · To what, where: 2014, Ugandan television, cent Ugandan content, independent productions, prepared regulations
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 (prepared regulations), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Commission | det |
| 2 | Uganda | Uganda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Communications | compound |
| 3 | Communications | Communication | PROPN | Number=Plur | 4 Commission | compound |
| 4 | Commission | commission | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 regulations | nsubj |
| 5 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 6 UCC | punct |
| 6 | UCC | ucc | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Commission | appos |
| 7 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 6 UCC | punct |
| 8 | prepared | prepared | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 regulations | amod |
| 9 | regulations | regulation | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 10 | starting | start | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 regulations | acl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 2014 | case |
| 12 | 2014 | 2014 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 10 starting | obl |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 required | nsubj |
| 14 | required | require | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 regulations | acl:relcl |
| 15 | Ugandan | Ugandan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 television | compound |
| 16 | television | television | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 required | obj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 broadcast | mark |
| 18 | broadcast | broadcast | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 required | xcomp |
| 19 | 70 | 70 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 21 cent | nummod |
| 20 | per | per | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 cent | compound |
| 21 | cent | cent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 content | compound |
| 22 | Ugandan | Ugandan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 content | compound |
| 23 | content | content | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 broadcast | obj |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 cent | cc |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 this | case |
| 26 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 30 cent | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 this | punct |
| 28 | 40 | 40 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 30 cent | nummod |
| 29 | per | per | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 cent | compound |
| 30 | cent | cent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 content | conj |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 34 productions | mark |
| 32 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 34 productions | cop |
| 33 | independent | independent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 productions | amod |
| 34 | productions | production | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 cent | nmod |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 regulations | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | start | gerund | prepared regulations the Communications Commission not said here | 2014 | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | require | past | prepared regulations the Communications Commission | Ugandan television | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent television=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | broadcast speech: other | to-infinitive | prepared regulations the Communications Commission not said here | cent Ugandan content and 40 per cent of this | vn instr_communication-37.4.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent content=Topic | ||||
| 4 | is a | to-infinitive | independent productions | tree rules |
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