--- title: Its overarching goal is to 'strengthen national capability to genera… — Uganda · tree and pragmatics description: Its overarching goal is to 'strengthen national capability to generate, transfer and apply scientific knowledge, skills and technologies that ensure sustainable utilisation of natural resources for the realisation of Uganda's development objectives.' Who acts: overarching goal, skills. 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Its overarching goal is to 'strengthen national capability to generate, transfer and apply scientific knowledge, skills and technologies that ensure sustainable utilisation of natural resources for the realisation of Uganda's development objectives.' **Who acts:** overarching goal, skills · **What happens:** overarch, be, generate, transfer, apply, ensure · **To what, where:** scientific knowledge, sustainable utilisation, natural resources, development objectives 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 (overarching goal, skills), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:489 # text = Its overarching goal is to 'strengthen national capability to generate, transfer and apply scientific knowledge, skills and technologies that ensure sustainable utilisation of natural resources for the realisation of Uganda's development objectives.' 1 Its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 3 nmod:poss _ _ 2 overarching overarch VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 3 amod _ _ 3 goal goal NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj:outer _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 5 to to PART TO _ 7 mark _ _ 6 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 7 strengthen strengthen VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 8 national national ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 capability capability NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 10 to to PART TO _ 11 mark _ _ 11 generate generate VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 transfer transfer VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 conj _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 apply apply VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 conj _ _ 16 scientific scientific ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 knowledge knowledge NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 19 skills skill NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 conj _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 technologies technology NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 conj _ _ 22 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 23 nsubj _ _ 23 ensure ensure VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 acl:relcl _ _ 24 sustainable sustainable ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 utilisation utilisation NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 26 of of ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 natural natural ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 resources resource NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nmod _ _ 29 for for ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 realisation realisation NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 32 of of ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 33 Uganda Uganda PROPN NNP Number=Sing 36 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 34 's 's PART POS _ 33 case _ _ 35 development development NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 compound _ _ 36 objectives objective NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 37 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 38 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **overarch** | gerund | | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **is** | present | paradise's overarching goal | | | | | national capability *obj*; strengthen *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **generate** | to-infinitive | paradise's overarching goal *not said here* | | | | | | vn grow-26.2.1 «NP.patient V PP.product»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **transfer** | infinitive | paradise's overarching goal *not said here* | | | | | | vn contribute-13.2-2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **apply** | infinitive | paradise's overarching goal *not said here* | scientific knowledge and skills and technologies | | | | | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knowledge=Theme | | 6 | **ensure** | present | skills and technologies | sustainable utilisation of natural resources | | | | for the realisation of Uganda's development objectives | vn ensure-99 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Precondition utilisation=Theme for realisation=Beneficiary | | 7 | **utilise** | | | natural resources | | | | | nom utilisation «act transitive»: of=patient | | 8 | **realise** | | | Uganda's development objectives | | | | | nom realisation «communication transitive»: of=patient | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 488](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Uganda/488/) - next →: [sentence 490](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Uganda/490/) - ↑ back to [Uganda](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Uganda/)