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title: Kampala originally referred to only the present-day Old Kampala hill… — Kampala · tree and pragmatics
description: Kampala originally referred to only the present-day Old Kampala hill, on whose summit Fort Lugard was located, and the initial headquarters of the British colonial authorities in the soon to be Uganda Protectorate. Who acts: Kampala. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Kampala» with its dependency tree and p
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# Kampala, sentence 9

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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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Kampala originally referred to only the present-day Old Kampala hill, on whose summit Fort Lugard was located, and the initial headquarters of the British colonial authorities in the soon to be Uganda Protectorate.

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**Who acts:** Kampala · **What happens:** refer, locate, be · **To what, where:** initial headquarters, Fort, Uganda Protectorate

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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 (Kampala), 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:9
# text = Kampala originally referred to only the present-day Old Kampala hill, on whose summit Fort Lugard was located, and the initial headquarters of the British colonial authorities in the soon to be Uganda Protectorate.
1	Kampala	Kampala	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	originally	originally	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	referred	refer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
5	only	only	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
7	present	present	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl:unmarked	_	_
10	Old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
11	Kampala	Kampala	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	hill	hill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
14	on	on	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
15	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	summit	summit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod:desc	_	_
17	Fort	Fort	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nsubj:pass	_	_
18	Lugard	Lugard	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	flat	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	located	locate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	initial	initial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	headquarters	headquarters	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	3	obl	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
28	British	British	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
29	colonial	colonial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	authorities	authority	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nmod	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
33	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	37	advmod	_	_
34	to	to	PART	TO	_	37	mark	_	_
35	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	37	cop	_	_
36	Uganda	Uganda	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	compound	_	_
37	Protectorate	Protectorate	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **refer** | past | Kampala | the initial headquarters of the British colonial authorities |  |  |  | to the Old Kampala hill; originally *property* | vn relate-86.2-2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to hill=Co-Theme |
| 2 | **locate** | past · passive |  | Fort  Fort  Fort's summit's summit |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | to-infinitive |  |  |  | the Uganda Protectorate |  | soon *property* | tree rules |

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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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