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title: The abolition of the Buganda High Court – removing any judicial auth… — Uganda · tree and pragmatics
description: The abolition of the Buganda High Court – removing any judicial authority the Kabaka had. Who acts: abolition, Kabaka. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Uganda» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Uganda, sentence 144

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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 abolition of the Buganda High Court – removing any judicial authority the Kabaka had.

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**Who acts:** abolition, Kabaka · **What happens:** remove, have, abolish · **To what, where:** judicial authority, Buganda High Court

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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 (abolition, Kabaka), 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:144
# text = The abolition of the Buganda High Court – removing any judicial authority the Kabaka had.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	abolition	abolition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	Buganda	Buganda	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
6	High	High	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	Court	Court	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
8	–	-	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
9	removing	remove	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
10	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	12	det	_	_
11	judicial	judicial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	authority	authority	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	Kabaka	Kabaka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **remove** | gerund | the abolition of the Buganda High Court | any judicial authority |  |  |  |  | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent authority=Theme |
| 2 | **have** | past | the Kabaka |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **abolish** |  |  | the Buganda High Court |  |  |  |  | nom abolition «act 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, «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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