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title: Uganda traditionally depends on Kenya for access to the Indian Ocean… — Uganda · tree and pragmatics
description: Uganda traditionally depends on Kenya for access to the Indian Ocean port of Mombasa. Who acts: Uganda. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Uganda» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Uganda, sentence 359

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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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Uganda traditionally depends on Kenya for access to the Indian Ocean port of Mombasa.

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**Who acts:** Uganda · **What happens:** depend

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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 (Uganda), 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:359
# text = Uganda traditionally depends on Kenya for access to the Indian Ocean port of Mombasa.
1	Uganda	uganda	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	traditionally	traditionally	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	depends	depend	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Kenya	Kenya	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	access	access	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	Indian	Indian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
11	Ocean	Ocean	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	port	port	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Mombasa	Mombasa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **depend** | present | Uganda |  |  |  |  | for access to the Indian Ocean port of Mombasa; on Kenya; traditionally *property* | vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S\_ING»: agent=Agent on kenya=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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