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title: The protest, which called on workers to walk to work to highlight th… — Kampala · tree and pragmatics
description: The protest, which called on workers to walk to work to highlight the increased cost of transport in Uganda, was disrupted by police, who fired tear gas and arrested three-time presidential candidate Kizza Besigye and Democratic Party leader Norbert Mao. Who acts: protest, police. A sentence of Wiki
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# Kampala, sentence 158

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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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The protest, which called on workers to walk to work to highlight the increased cost of transport in Uganda, was disrupted by police, who fired tear gas and arrested three-time presidential candidate Kizza Besigye and Democratic Party leader Norbert Mao.

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**Who acts:** protest, police · **What happens:** call, walk, work, highlight, increase, disrupt · **To what, where:** workers, increased cost, protest, tear gas, transport · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (protest, police), 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:158
# text = The protest, which called on workers to walk to work to highlight the increased cost of transport in Uganda, was disrupted by police, who fired tear gas and arrested three-time presidential candidate Kizza Besigye and Democratic Party leader Norbert Mao.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	protest	protest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
5	called	call	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	workers	worker	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	walk	walk	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	work	work	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	advcl	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	highlight	highlight	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	advcl	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	increased	increase	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	amod	_	_
16	cost	cost	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	transport	transport	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	Uganda	Uganda	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
22	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux:pass	_	_
23	disrupted	disrupt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
24	by	by	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	police	police	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl:agent	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	28	nsubj	_	_
28	fired	fire	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	acl:relcl	_	_
29	tear	tear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	gas	gas	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	arrested	arrest	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	conj	_	_
33	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	35	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	_
36	presidential	presidential	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	candidate	candidate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nmod:desc	_	_
38	Kizza	Kizza	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	appos	_	_
39	Besigye	Besigye	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	flat	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
41	Democratic	Democratic	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
42	Party	Party	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	43	compound	_	_
43	leader	leader	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	conj	_	_
44	Norbert	Norbert	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	43	appos	_	_
45	Mao	Mao	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	44	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	23	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** | past | the protest |  |  | workers |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **walk** | to-infinitive | the protest *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **work** | to-infinitive | the protest *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **highlight** | to-infinitive | the protest *not said here* | the increased cost of transport in Uganda |  |  |  |  | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cost=Patient |
| 5 | **increase** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn caused\_calibratable\_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 6 | **disrupt** | past · passive | police | the protest |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **fire** | past | police | tear gas |  |  |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gas=Theme |
| 8 | **arrest** | past | police *not said here* |  |  |  | time |  | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 9 | **cost** |  |  | transport in Uganda |  |  |  |  | nom cost «possession transitive»: of=patient |

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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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