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title: In response to global condemnation the debate of the bill was delaye… — Uganda · tree and pragmatics
description: In response to global condemnation the debate of the bill was delayed, but it was eventually passed on 20 December 2013 and President Museveni signed it on 24 February 2014. Who acts: debate, Museveni. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Uganda» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Uganda, sentence 294

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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 response to global condemnation the debate of the bill was delayed, but it was eventually passed on 20 December 2013 and President Museveni signed it on 24 February 2014.

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**Who acts:** debate, Museveni · **What happens:** be, pass, sign, debate · **To what, where:** response, debate, 20, bill

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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 (debate, 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:294
# text = In response to global condemnation the debate of the bill was delayed, but it was eventually passed on 20 December 2013 and President Museveni signed it on 24 February 2014.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	response	response	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	global	global	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	condemnation	condemnation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	debate	debate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	bill	bill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
12	delayed	delayed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux:pass	_	_
17	eventually	eventually	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	passed	pass	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	conj	_	_
19	on	on	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	20	20	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	18	obl	_	_
21	December	December	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod:unmarked	_	_
22	2013	2013	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	20	flat	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
24	President	President	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nmod:desc	_	_
25	Museveni	Museveni	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
26	signed	sign	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
27	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	_
28	on	on	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	24	24	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	30	nummod	_	_
30	February	February	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
31	2014	2014	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	30	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the debate of the bill |  |  | response to global condemnation |  | delayed *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **pass** | past · passive |  | debate |  | 20  December |  | eventually *property* | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: subject=Theme on 20=Destination |
| 3 | **sign** | past | Museveni  President | debate |  |  | february |  | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Destination |
| 4 | **debate** |  |  | the bill |  |  |  |  | nom debate «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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