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title: In 1966, following a power struggle between the Obote-led government… — Uganda · tree and pragmatics
description: In 1966, following a power struggle between the Obote-led government and King Muteesa, Obote suspended the constitution and removed the ceremonial president and vice-president. Who acts: Obote. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Uganda» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Uganda, sentence 159

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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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In 1966, following a power struggle between the Obote-led government and King Muteesa, Obote suspended the constitution and removed the ceremonial president and vice-president.

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**Who acts:** Obote · **What happens:** follow, lead, suspend, remove · **To what, where:** power struggle, led government, Obote, constitution, 1966, ceremonial president

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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 (Obote), 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:159
# text = In 1966, following a power struggle between the Obote-led government and King Muteesa, Obote suspended the constitution and removed the ceremonial president and vice-president.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	1966	1966	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	following	follow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	struggle	struggle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	between	between	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
10	Obote	Obote	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	led	lead	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	amod	_	_
13	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	appos	_	_
16	Muteesa	Muteesa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
18	Obote	Obote	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	suspended	suspend	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	constitution	constitution	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	removed	remove	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	ceremonial	ceremonial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	president	president	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	vice-president	vice-president	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **follow** | gerund |  | a power struggle |  | the led government |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent struggle=Theme between government=Trajectory |
| 2 | **lead** | participle |  | Obote |  |  |  |  | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition |
| 3 | **suspend** | past | Obote | the constitution |  | 1966 |  |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent constitution=Theme in 1966=Destination |
| 4 | **remove** | past | Obote *not said here* | the ceremonial president and vice-president |  |  |  |  | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent president=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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