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title: In Kampala, the term "taxi" refers to a 15-seater minibus used as pu… — Kampala · tree and pragmatics
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# Kampala, sentence 145

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From Wikipedia, [«Kampala»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kampala), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.

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In Kampala, the term "taxi" refers to a 15-seater minibus used as public transport.

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**Who acts:** term · **What happens:** refer, use · **To what, where:** Kampala, seater minibus

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Kampala». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (term), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = wikipedia:Kampala:145
# text = In Kampala, the term "taxi" refers to a 15-seater minibus used as public transport.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	Kampala	Kampala	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	term	term	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
6	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	taxi	taxi	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
9	refers	refer	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
12	15	15	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	seater	seater	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	minibus	minibus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
16	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	acl	_	_
17	as	as	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	public	public	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	transport	transport	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **refer** | present | the term |  |  | Kampala |  | to a seater minibus | vn relate-86.2-2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to minibus=Co-Theme |
| 2 | **use** | participle |  | a seater minibus *not said here* |  |  |  | as public transport | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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**Text:** the English Wikipedia, «Kampala», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. **Tree:** Mova's own parse, CC BY-SA 4.0 as the text is. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the article read in order, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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