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title: In 1893, the Imperial British East Africa Company transferred its ad… — Uganda · tree and pragmatics
description: In 1893, the Imperial British East Africa Company transferred its administration rights of territory consisting mainly of the Kingdom of Buganda to the British government. Who acts: Imperial British Africa Company, territory. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Uganda» with its dependency tree and pragmatics
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# Uganda, sentence 47

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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 1893, the Imperial British East Africa Company transferred its administration rights of territory consisting mainly of the Kingdom of Buganda to the British government.

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**Who acts:** Imperial British Africa Company, territory · **What happens:** transfer, consist · **To what, where:** administration rights, 1893, Kingdom

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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 (Imperial British Africa Company, territory), 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:47
# text = In 1893, the Imperial British East Africa Company transferred its administration rights of territory consisting mainly of the Kingdom of Buganda to the British government.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	1893	1893	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
5	Imperial	imperial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
6	British	British	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
7	East	East	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	Africa	Africa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	Company	Company	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	transferred	transfer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
12	administration	administration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	rights	right	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	territory	territory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
16	consisting	consist	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	acl	_	_
17	mainly	mainly	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	Kingdom	Kingdom	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	Buganda	Buganda	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	British	British	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **transfer** | past | the Imperial British Africa Company | Company's administration rights of territory |  | 1893 |  |  | vn contribute-13.2-2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent right=Theme |
| 2 | **consist** | gerund | territory *not said here* | the Kingdom of Buganda |  |  |  | to the British government | tree rules |

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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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