--- title: In April 2011, the pressure group Activists for Change (A4C) held it… — Kampala · tree and pragmatics description: In April 2011, the pressure group Activists for Change (A4C) held its first Walk to Work protest near Kampala, in response to a comment by President Museveni on the increased cost of fuel, which had risen by 50 percent between January and April 2011. 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In April 2011, the pressure group Activists for Change (A4C) held its first Walk to Work protest near Kampala, in response to a comment by President Museveni on the increased cost of fuel, which had risen by 50 percent between January and April 2011. **Who acts:** group Activists, 50 percent, Rail, President · **What happens:** hold, increase, rise, walk, comment, cost · **To what, where:** first Walk, response, fuel, increased cost 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 (group Activists, 50 percent, Rail, President), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = wikipedia:Kampala:155 # text = In April 2011, the pressure group Activists for Change (A4C) held its first Walk to Work protest near Kampala, in response to a comment by President Museveni on the increased cost of fuel, which had risen by 50 percent between January and April 2011. 1 In in ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 April April PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 3 2011 2011 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 2 nmod:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 6 pressure pressure NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 group group NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 Activists activist NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nsubj _ _ 9 for for ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 Change Change PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nmod _ _ 11 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 12 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 12 A4C A4C PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 13 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 12 punct _ _ 14 held hold VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 15 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 16 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 17 amod _ _ 17 Walk walk NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 18 to to ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 Work work NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 compound _ _ 20 protest protest NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 21 near near ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 Kampala Kampala PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 24 in in ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 response response NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 26 to to ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 comment comment NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nmod _ _ 29 by by ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 President President PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 nmod _ _ 31 Museveni Museveni PROPN NNP Number=Sing 30 flat _ _ 32 on on ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 34 increased increase VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 35 amod _ _ 35 cost cost NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nmod _ _ 36 of of ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 37 fuel fuel NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 38 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 39 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 41 nsubj:pass _ _ 40 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 41 aux _ _ 41 risen rise VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 37 acl:relcl _ _ 42 by by ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 43 50 50 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 44 nummod _ _ 44 percent percent NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obl _ _ 45 between between ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 46 January January PROPN NNP Number=Sing 44 nmod _ _ 47 and and CCONJ CC _ 48 cc _ _ 48 April April PROPN NNP Number=Sing 46 conj _ _ 49 2011 2011 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 48 nmod:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 50 . . PUNCT . _ 14 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hold** | past | the group Activists for Change | Rail's first Walk | | response to a comment by President on the increased cost of fuel | april | to Work protest near Kampala | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent walk=Theme in response=Location | | 2 | **increase** | participle | | | | | | | vn caused\_calibratable\_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **rise** | past · perfect · passive | 50 percent between January and April 2011 | fuel | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location subject=Theme | | 4 | **walk** | | Rail | | | | | | nom walk «act transitive»: poss=agent | | 5 | **comment** | | President | | | the increased cost of fuel | | | nom comment «communication transitive»: by=agent on=place | | 6 | **cost** | | | fuel | | | | | nom cost «possession transitive»: of=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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 154](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Kampala/154/) - next →: [sentence 156](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Kampala/156/) - ↑ back to [Kampala](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Kampala/)