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title: The Kabaka was often regarded as aloof and unresponsive to advice fr… — Uganda · tree and pragmatics
description: The Kabaka was often regarded as aloof and unresponsive to advice from the younger Buganda politicians who better understood the new post-Independence politics, unlike the traditionalists who were ambivalent to what was going on as long as their traditional benefits were maintained. Who acts: younge
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# Uganda, sentence 150

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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 Kabaka was often regarded as aloof and unresponsive to advice from the younger Buganda politicians who better understood the new post-Independence politics, unlike the traditionalists who were ambivalent to what was going on as long as their traditional benefits were maintained.

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**Who acts:** younger Buganda politicians, traditionalists · **What happens:** regard, understand, be, go on, maintain · **To what, where:** Kabaka, younger Buganda politicians, new post-Independence politics, traditional benefits

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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 (younger Buganda politicians, traditionalists), 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:150
# text = The Kabaka was often regarded as aloof and unresponsive to advice from the younger Buganda politicians who better understood the new post-Independence politics, unlike the traditionalists who were ambivalent to what was going on as long as their traditional benefits were maintained.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Kabaka	Kabaka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
4	often	often	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	regarded	regard	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	as	as	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	aloof	aloof	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	unresponsive	unresponsive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	advice	advice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
12	from	from	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
14	younger	young	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	16	amod	_	_
15	Buganda	Buganda	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	politicians	politician	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
17	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
18	better	well	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	19	advmod	_	_
19	understood	understand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl:relcl	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
21	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
22	post-Independence	post-independence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	politics	politics	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	unlike	unlike	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	traditionalists	traditionalist	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
28	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	30	nsubj	_	_
29	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
30	ambivalent	ambivalent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	acl:relcl	_	_
31	to	to	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	30	obl	_	_
33	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
34	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	32	acl:relcl	_	_
35	on	on	ADP	RP	_	34	compound:prt	_	_
36	as	as	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
37	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	34	advmod	_	_
38	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	43	mark	_	_
39	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	41	nmod:poss	_	_
40	traditional	traditional	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
41	benefits	benefit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	43	nsubj	_	_
42	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	43	aux:pass	_	_
43	maintained	maintain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	37	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **regard** | past · passive |  | the Kabaka |  | the younger Buganda politicians |  | as aloof; to advice; the traditionalists *conj*; often *property* | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP PP.value»: subject=Theme as aloof=Value |
| 2 | **understand** | past | the younger Buganda politicians | the new post-Independence politics |  |  |  | well *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer politics=Stimulus |
| 3 | **is** | past | the traditionalists |  |  |  |  | to the traditionalists; ambivalent *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **go on** | past · progressive |  |  |  |  |  | long *property* | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **maintain** | past · passive |  | traditionalists's traditional benefits |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=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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