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title: The second is Mengo Hill which was the then kibuga (capital) of Buga… — Kampala · tree and pragmatics
description: The second is Mengo Hill which was the then kibuga (capital) of Buganda kingdom at the start of British colonial rule. Who acts: second, Mengo. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Kampala» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Kampala, sentence 76

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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 second is Mengo Hill which was the then kibuga (capital) of Buganda kingdom at the start of British colonial rule.

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**Who acts:** second, Mengo · **What happens:** be, start · **To what, where:** Mengo, kibuga, British colonial rule

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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 (second, Mengo), 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:76
# text = The second is Mengo Hill which was the then kibuga (capital) of Buganda kingdom at the start of British colonial rule.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	second	second	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	Mengo	Mengo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	Hill	Hill	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	flat	_	_
6	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	10	advmod	_	_
10	kibuga	kibuga	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	acl:relcl	_	_
11	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	capital	capital	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	12	punct	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	Buganda	Buganda	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
17	at	at	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	start	start	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	British	British	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
22	colonial	colonial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	rule	rule	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the second | Mengo |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | past | Mengo | the kibuga |  |  | then | of Buganda kingdom at the start of British colonial rule; capital *appos* | tree rules |
| 3 | **start** |  |  | British colonial rule |  |  |  |  | nom start «event 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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