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title: To supplement their income, rural women may engage in small-scale en… — Uganda · tree and pragmatics
description: To supplement their income, rural women may engage in small-scale entrepreneurial activities such as rearing and selling local breeds of animals. Who acts: rural women, entrepreneurial activities. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Uganda» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Uganda, sentence 385

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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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To supplement their income, rural women may engage in small-scale entrepreneurial activities such as rearing and selling local breeds of animals.

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**Who acts:** rural women, entrepreneurial activities · **What happens:** supplement, engage, rear, sell · **To what, where:** income, entrepreneurial activities, small scale, local breeds

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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 (rural women, entrepreneurial activities), 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:385
# text = To supplement their income, rural women may engage in small-scale entrepreneurial activities such as rearing and selling local breeds of animals.
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	supplement	supplement	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	advcl	_	_
3	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	income	income	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
6	rural	rural	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
8	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	engage	engage	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	scale	scale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
14	entrepreneurial	entrepreneurial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	activities	activity	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
16	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=SCONJ	18	mark	_	_
17	as	as	ADP	IN	_	16	fixed	_	_
18	rearing	rear	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	acl	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	selling	sell	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	18	conj	_	_
21	local	local	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	breeds	breed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **supplement** | to-infinitive | rural women *not said here* | households's income |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **engage** | may | rural women | entrepreneurial activities |  |  |  | in small scale *goal* | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent activity=Theme in scale=Goal |
| 3 | **rear** | gerund | entrepreneurial activities *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn rear-26.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **sell** | gerund | entrepreneurial activities *not said here* | local breeds of animals |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent breed=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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