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title: In the 1950s, the British colonial regime encouraged some 500,000 su… — Uganda · tree and pragmatics
description: In the 1950s, the British colonial regime encouraged some 500,000 subsistence farmers to join co-operatives. Who acts: British colonial regime, 500,000 subsistence farmers. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Uganda» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Uganda, sentence 348

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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 the 1950s, the British colonial regime encouraged some 500,000 subsistence farmers to join co-operatives.

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**Who acts:** British colonial regime, 500,000 subsistence farmers · **What happens:** encourage, join · **To what, where:** 500,000 subsistence farmers, 1950s, co-operatives

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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 (British colonial regime, 500,000 subsistence farmers), 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:348
# text = In the 1950s, the British colonial regime encouraged some 500,000 subsistence farmers to join co-operatives.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	1950s	1950	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	British	British	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	colonial	colonial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	regime	regime	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	encouraged	encourage	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	13	det	_	_
11	500,000	500,000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
12	subsistence	subsistence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	farmers	farmer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	join	join	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
16	co-operatives	co-operative	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **encourage** | past | the British colonial regime | some 500,000 subsistence farmers |  | the 1950s |  |  | vn advise-37.9 «NP V NP how S\_INF»: agent=Agent farmer=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **join** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | some 500,000 subsistence farmers *not said here* | co-operatives |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent co-operative=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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