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title: The UPC, which had previously been a national party, began to break… — Uganda · tree and pragmatics
description: The UPC, which had previously been a national party, began to break along tribal lines when Ibingira challenged Obote in the UPC. Who acts: UPC, Ibingira. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Uganda» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Uganda, sentence 104

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From Wikipedia, [«Uganda»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uganda), 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 UPC, which had previously been a national party, began to break along tribal lines when Ibingira challenged Obote in the UPC.

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**Who acts:** UPC, Ibingira · **What happens:** be, begin, break, challenge · **To what, where:** national party, tribal lines, Obote, UPC

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Uganda». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (UPC, Ibingira), 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:Uganda:104
# text = The UPC, which had previously been a national party, began to break along tribal lines when Ibingira challenged Obote in the UPC.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	UPC	UPC	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
4	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
5	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
6	previously	previously	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
7	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	10	cop	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	national	national	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	party	party	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
12	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	break	break	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	_
15	along	along	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	tribal	tribal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	lines	line	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
18	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	20	advmod	_	_
19	Ibingira	Ibingira	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
20	challenged	challenge	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
21	Obote	Obote	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	UPC	UPC	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past · perfect | the UPC | a national party |  |  |  | previously *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **begin** | past | the UPC |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **break** | to-infinitive | the UPC *not said here* |  |  | tribal lines |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along line=Location |
| 4 | **challenge** | past | Ibingira | Obote |  | the UPC |  |  | 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, «Uganda», 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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