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title: In 2014, Ugandan parliamentarians earned 60 times what was earned by… — Uganda · tree and pragmatics
description: In 2014, Ugandan parliamentarians earned 60 times what was earned by most state employees, and they sought a major increase. Who acts: Ugandan parliamentarians, most state employees, parliamentarians. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Uganda» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Uganda, sentence 250

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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 2014, Ugandan parliamentarians earned 60 times what was earned by most state employees, and they sought a major increase.

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**Who acts:** Ugandan parliamentarians, most state employees, parliamentarians · **What happens:** earn, seek · **To what, where:** 2014, 60 times, major increase

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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 (Ugandan parliamentarians, most state employees, parliamentarians), 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:250
# text = In 2014, Ugandan parliamentarians earned 60 times what was earned by most state employees, and they sought a major increase.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	2014	2014	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	Ugandan	Ugandan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	parliamentarians	parliamentarian	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	earned	earn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	60	60	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl:unmarked	_	_
9	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	earned	earn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl:relcl	_	_
12	by	by	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	15	amod	_	_
14	state	state	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	employees	employee	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl:agent	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	sought	seek	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	major	major	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	increase	increase	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **earn** | past | Ugandan parliamentarians |  |  | 2014 | time |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **earn** | past · passive | most state employees | 60 times |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
| 3 | **seek** | past | parliamentarians *= parliamentarian* | a major increase |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent increase=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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