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title: At the time, there was a tendency to perceive central government and… — Uganda · tree and pragmatics
description: At the time, there was a tendency to perceive central government and security forces as dominated by "northerners," particularly the Acholi who through the UPC had significant access to government positions at the national level. Who acts: tendency, northerners. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Uganda» wi
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# Uganda, sentence 117

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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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At the time, there was a tendency to perceive central government and security forces as dominated by "northerners," particularly the Acholi who through the UPC had significant access to government positions at the national level.

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**Who acts:** tendency, northerners · **What happens:** be, perceive, dominate, have · **To what, where:** central government, significant access, national level

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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 (tendency, northerners), 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:117
# text = At the time, there was a tendency to perceive central government and security forces as dominated by "northerners," particularly the Acholi who through the UPC had significant access to government positions at the national level.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	6	expl	_	_
6	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	tendency	tendency	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	perceive	perceive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	acl	_	_
11	central	central	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	security	security	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	forces	force	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	_
16	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
17	dominated	dominate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	advcl	_	_
18	by	by	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	northerners	northerner	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl:agent	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	25	punct	_	_
23	particularly	particularly	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	Acholi	Acholi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
26	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	30	nsubj	_	_
27	through	through	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	UPC	UPC	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
30	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	acl:relcl	_	_
31	significant	significant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	access	access	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
33	to	to	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	_
35	positions	position	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obl	_	_
36	at	at	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
38	national	national	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	level	level	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | a tendency |  |  | there | time |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **perceive** | to-infinitive | a tendency *not said here* | central government and security forces |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer government=Stimulus |
| 3 | **dominate** | participle | a tendency *not said here* |  |  |  |  | northerners  the Acholi *obl:agent* | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **have** | past | northerners  the Acholi | significant access |  | the national level |  | to government positions; the UPC *nsubj* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent access=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, «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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