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title: However, both "Bantu" and "Nilotic" labels represent significant amb… — Uganda · tree and pragmatics
description: However, both "Bantu" and "Nilotic" labels represent significant ambiguities. Who acts: Bantu. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Uganda» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Uganda, sentence 120

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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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However, both "Bantu" and "Nilotic" labels represent significant ambiguities.

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**Who acts:** Bantu · **What happens:** represent · **To what, where:** significant ambiguities

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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 (Bantu), 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:120
# text = However, both "Bantu" and "Nilotic" labels represent significant ambiguities.
1	However	however	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	both	both	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc:preconj	_	_
4	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	Bantu	Bantu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	Nilotic	Nilotic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
11	labels	label	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
12	represent	represent	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	significant	significant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	ambiguities	ambiguity	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **represent** | present | Bantu and Nilotic | significant ambiguities |  |  |  | labels *nsubj*; however *property* | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot ambiguity=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, «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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