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title: As of 2019, adoption of LGBT rights on the African continent was slo… — Uganda · tree and pragmatics
description: As of 2019, adoption of LGBT rights on the African continent was slow but progressing with South Africa being the only country where same sex marriages are recognised. Who acts: adoption, progressing. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Uganda» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Uganda, sentence 301

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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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As of 2019, adoption of LGBT rights on the African continent was slow but progressing with South Africa being the only country where same sex marriages are recognised.

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**Who acts:** adoption, progressing · **What happens:** be, progress, recognise, adopt · **To what, where:** only country, same sex marriages, LGBT rights

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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 (adoption, progressing), 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:301
# text = As of 2019, adoption of LGBT rights on the African continent was slow but progressing with South Africa being the only country where same sex marriages are recognised.
1	As	as	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	3	case	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	1	fixed	_	_
3	2019	2019	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	adoption	adoption	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	LGBT	lgbt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	rights	right	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	African	African	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	continent	continent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
14	slow	slow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
15	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
16	progressing	progress	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	23	csubj	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	South	South	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	Africa	Africa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
20	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	23	cop	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	only	only	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
24	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	29	advmod	_	_
25	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
26	sex	sex	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	marriages	marriage	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nsubj:pass	_	_
28	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux:pass	_	_
29	recognised	recognise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | adoption of LGBT rights on the African continent |  |  |  |  | as 2019; slow *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **progress** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | with South Africa | vn entity\_specific\_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **is a** | gerund | progressing | the only country |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **recognise** | present · passive |  | same sex marriages |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |
| 5 | **adopt** |  |  | LGBT rights on the African continent |  |  |  |  | nom adoption «act 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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