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title: Parliament abolished presidential term limits in 2005, allegedly bec… — Uganda · tree and pragmatics
description: Parliament abolished presidential term limits in 2005, allegedly because Museveni used public funds to pay US$2,000 to each member of parliament who supported the measure. Who acts: Parliament, Museveni. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Uganda» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Uganda, sentence 181

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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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Parliament abolished presidential term limits in 2005, allegedly because Museveni used public funds to pay US$2,000 to each member of parliament who supported the measure.

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**Who acts:** Parliament, Museveni · **What happens:** abolish, use, pay, support · **To what, where:** presidential term limits, 2005, public funds, measure

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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 (Parliament, Museveni), 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:181
# text = Parliament abolished presidential term limits in 2005, allegedly because Museveni used public funds to pay US$2,000 to each member of parliament who supported the measure.
1	Parliament	Parliament	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	abolished	abolish	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	presidential	presidential	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	term	term	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	limits	limit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	2005	2005	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	allegedly	allegedly	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
10	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
11	Museveni	Museveni	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	used	use	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
13	public	public	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	funds	fund	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	pay	pay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	advcl	_	_
17	US	US	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	$	$	SYM	$	_	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	2,000	2000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	18	nummod	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	22	det	_	_
22	member	member	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	parliament	parliament	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
25	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	26	nsubj	_	_
26	supported	support	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	acl:relcl	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	measure	measure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **abolish** | past | Parliament | presidential term limits |  | 2005 |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent limit=Theme |
| 2 | **use** | past | Museveni | public funds |  |  |  | allegedly *property* | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fund=Patient |
| 3 | **pay** | to-infinitive | Museveni *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to each member of parliament | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent $=Asset |
| 4 | **support** | past | parliament | the measure |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer measure=Stimulus |

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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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