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title: The national roads make up about 17% of the road network but carry o… — Uganda · tree and pragmatics
description: The national roads make up about 17% of the road network but carry over 80% of the total road traffic. Who acts: national roads. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Uganda» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Uganda, sentence 404

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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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The national roads make up about 17% of the road network but carry over 80% of the total road traffic.

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**Who acts:** national roads · **What happens:** make up, carry over

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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 (national roads), 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:404
# text = The national roads make up about 17% of the road network but carry over 80% of the total road traffic.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	national	national	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	roads	road	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	up	up	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	about	about	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	17	17	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	%	%	SYM	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	network	network	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
13	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	carry	carry	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
15	over	over	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	80	80	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	%	%	SYM	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
20	total	total	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
21	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	traffic	traffic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make up** | present | the national roads |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme %=Pivot |
| 2 | **carry over** | present | the national roads *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent %=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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