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title: In the book, Burton, relying on the information collected by Snay Bi… — Kampala · tree and pragmatics
description: In the book, Burton, relying on the information collected by Snay Bin Amir, an Arab trader, described the Kibuga as: Who acts: book. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Kampala» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Kampala, sentence 19

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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 the book, Burton, relying on the information collected by Snay Bin Amir, an Arab trader, described the Kibuga as:

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**Who acts:** book · **What happens:** rely, collect, describe · **To what, where:** information, Kibuga, book

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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 (book), 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:19
# text = In the book, Burton, relying on the information collected by Snay Bin Amir, an Arab trader, described the Kibuga as:
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	book	book	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	Burton	Burton	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	relying	rely	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	acl	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	information	information	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	collected	collect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl	_	_
12	by	by	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Snay	Snay	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obl:agent	_	_
14	Bin	Bin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	flat	_	_
15	Amir	Amir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	Arab	Arab	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	trader	trader	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
21	described	describe	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	Kibuga	Kibuga	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	as	as	ADP	IN	_	21	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rely** | gerund | the book *not said here* |  |  |  |  | on the information | vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S\_ING»: agent=Agent on information=Theme |
| 2 | **collect** | participle |  | the information *not said here* |  |  |  | Snay *obl:agent* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **describe** | past |  | the Kibuga |  | the book |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent kibuga=Theme |

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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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