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title: Arab traders moved into the land from the Indian Ocean coast of East… — Uganda · tree and pragmatics
description: Arab traders moved into the land from the Indian Ocean coast of East Africa in the 1830s for trade and commerce. Who acts: Arab traders. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Uganda» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Uganda, sentence 29

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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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Arab traders moved into the land from the Indian Ocean coast of East Africa in the 1830s for trade and commerce.

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**Who acts:** Arab traders · **What happens:** move · **To what, where:** land

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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 (Arab traders), 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:29
# text = Arab traders moved into the land from the Indian Ocean coast of East Africa in the 1830s for trade and commerce.
1	Arab	Arab	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	traders	trader	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	moved	move	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	into	into	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	Indian	Indian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	Ocean	Ocean	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	coast	coast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	East	East	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	Africa	Africa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	1830s	1830	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
18	for	for	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	trade	trade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	commerce	commerce	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **move** | past | Arab traders |  |  | the land |  | from the Indian Ocean coast of East Africa; in the 1830s for trade and commerce | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme into land=Source from coast=Trajectory in 1830=Destination |

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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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