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title: Burdensome and corrupt registration procedures (i.e. requiring recom… — Uganda · tree and pragmatics
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# Uganda, sentence 263

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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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Burdensome and corrupt registration procedures (i.e. requiring recommendations from government officials; annual re-registration), unreasonable regulation of operations (i.e. requiring government notification prior to making contact with individuals in NGO's area of interest), and the precondition that all foreign funds be passed through the Bank of Uganda, among other things, are severely limiting the output of the NGO sector.

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**Who acts:** Burdensome registration procedures, unreasonable regulation · **What happens:** require, make, pass, limit, regulate · **To what, where:** recommendations, government officials, government notification, foreign funds, Bank, output

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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 (Burdensome registration procedures, unreasonable regulation), 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:263
# text = Burdensome and corrupt registration procedures (i.e. requiring recommendations from government officials; annual re-registration), unreasonable regulation of operations (i.e. requiring government notification prior to making contact with individuals in NGO's area of interest), and the precondition that all foreign funds be passed through the Bank of Uganda, among other things, are severely limiting the output of the NGO sector.
1	Burdensome	burdensome	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	corrupt	corrupt	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	_
4	registration	registration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	procedures	procedure	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	62	nsubj	_	_
6	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	i.e.	i.e.	ADV	FW	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	requiring	require	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	acl	_	_
9	recommendations	recommendation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
10	from	from	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	officials	official	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
14	annual	annual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	re-registration	re-registration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	unreasonable	unreasonable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	regulation	regulation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	operations	operation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nmod	_	_
22	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	i.e.	i.e.	ADV	FW	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	requiring	require	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	19	acl	_	_
25	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	notification	notification	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
27	prior	prior	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	30	case	_	_
28	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	fixed	_	_
29	making	make	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	30	amod	_	_
30	contact	contact	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
31	with	with	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	individuals	individual	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nmod	_	_
33	in	in	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
34	NGO	NGO	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	's	's	PART	POS	_	34	case	_	_
36	area	area	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	interest	interest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	precondition	precondition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
44	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	49	obj	_	_
45	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	47	det	_	_
46	foreign	foreign	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	47	amod	_	_
47	funds	fund	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	49	nsubj:pass	_	_
48	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	49	aux:pass	_	_
49	passed	pass	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	43	acl:relcl	_	_
50	through	through	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
51	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
52	Bank	Bank	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	49	obl	_	_
53	of	of	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
54	Uganda	Uganda	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	52	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	58	punct	_	_
56	among	among	ADP	IN	_	58	case	_	_
57	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	58	amod	_	_
58	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	49	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
60	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	62	aux	_	_
61	severely	severely	ADV	RB	_	62	advmod	_	_
62	limiting	limit	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
63	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	64	det	_	_
64	output	output	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	62	obj	_	_
65	of	of	ADP	IN	_	68	case	_	_
66	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	68	det	_	_
67	NGO	NGO	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	68	compound	_	_
68	sector	sector	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	64	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
69	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	62	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **require** | gerund | Burdensome registration procedures and annual re-registration and unreasonable regulation of operations and the precondition *not said here* | recommendations |  | government officials |  | i.e. *property* | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Theme recommendation=Precondition from official=Source |
| 2 | **require** | gerund | unreasonable regulation of operations *not said here* | government notification |  |  |  | prior making contact with individuals in NGO's area of interest; i.e. *property* | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme notification=Precondition |
| 3 | **make** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 4 | **pass** | infinitive · passive |  | all foreign funds |  | the Bank of Uganda |  | among other things; the precondition *obj* | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient that=Theme |
| 5 | **limit** | present · progressive | Burdensome registration procedures and annual re-registration and unreasonable regulation of operations and the precondition | the output of the NGO sector |  |  |  | severely *property* | vn limit-76 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer output=Patient |
| 6 | **regulate** |  |  | operations |  |  |  |  | nom regulation «communication 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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