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title: On 28 February 2014, the World Bank said it would postpone a US$90 m… — Uganda · tree and pragmatics
description: On 28 February 2014, the World Bank said it would postpone a US$90 million loan, while the United States said it was reviewing ties with Uganda. Who acts: World Bank, Bank, United States. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Uganda» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Uganda, sentence 298

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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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On 28 February 2014, the World Bank said it would postpone a US$90 million loan, while the United States said it was reviewing ties with Uganda.

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**Who acts:** World Bank, Bank, United States · **What happens:** say, postpone, review · **To what, where:** $ loan, ties · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (World Bank, Bank, United States), 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:298
# text = On 28 February 2014, the World Bank said it would postpone a US$90 million loan, while the United States said it was reviewing ties with Uganda.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	28	28	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	February	February	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
4	2014	2014	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	World	World	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	Bank	Bank	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	postpone	postpone	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	ccomp	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
14	US	US	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	$	$	SYM	$	_	18	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	90	90	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	17	compound	_	_
17	million	million	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
18	loan	loan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
20	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	United	United	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	States	State	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	24	nsubj	_	_
24	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
25	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
26	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	reviewing	review	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	24	ccomp	_	_
28	ties	tie	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obj	_	_
29	with	with	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	Uganda	Uganda	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the World Bank |  |  |  | february |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **postpone** | would | Bank | a $ loan |  |  |  |  | vn delay-53.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent loan=Eventuality |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the United States |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **review** | past · progressive | Bank | ties |  |  |  | with Uganda | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tie=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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