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title: On 11 July 2010, suicide bombers affiliated with al-Shabaab, a Sunni… — Kampala · tree and pragmatics
description: On 11 July 2010, suicide bombers affiliated with al-Shabaab, a Sunni Islamist group based in Somalia, carried out two nearly simultaneous bombings in Kampala, killing 74 people. Who acts: suicide bombers. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Kampala» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Kampala, sentence 68

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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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On 11 July 2010, suicide bombers affiliated with al-Shabaab, a Sunni Islamist group based in Somalia, carried out two nearly simultaneous bombings in Kampala, killing 74 people.

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**Who acts:** suicide bombers · **What happens:** affiliate, base, carry out, kill · **To what, where:** suicide bombers, Sunni Islamist group, Somalia, two simultaneous bombings, Kampala, 74 people

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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 (suicide bombers), 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:68
# text = On 11 July 2010, suicide bombers affiliated with al-Shabaab, a Sunni Islamist group based in Somalia, carried out two nearly simultaneous bombings in Kampala, killing 74 people.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	11	11	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	July	July	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
4	2010	2010	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	suicide	suicide	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	bombers	bomber	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
8	affiliated	affiliate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	al	Al	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	Shabaab	Shabaab	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
15	Sunni	Sunni	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
16	Islamist	Islamist	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	group	group	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	_
18	based	base	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	acl	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	Somalia	Somalia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
22	carried	carry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
23	out	out	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
24	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	27	nummod	_	_
25	nearly	nearly	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	simultaneous	simultaneous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	bombings	bombing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	Kampala	Kampala	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
31	killing	kill	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	22	advcl	_	_
32	74	74	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	33	nummod	_	_
33	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **affiliate** | participle |  | suicide bombers *not said here* |  |  |  | with al | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Patient with al=Co-Patient |
| 2 | **base** | participle |  | a Sunni Islamist group *not said here* |  | Somalia |  |  | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **carry out** | past | suicide bombers | two simultaneous bombings |  | Kampala | july | out *property* | vn act-114 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bombing=Eventuality |
| 4 | **kill** | gerund | suicide bombers *not said here* | 74 people |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=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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