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title: Swahili, a widely used language throughout the African Great Lakes r… — Uganda · tree and pragmatics
description: Swahili, a widely used language throughout the African Great Lakes region, was approved as the country's second official national language in 2005. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Uganda» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Uganda, sentence 512

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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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Swahili, a widely used language throughout the African Great Lakes region, was approved as the country's second official national language in 2005.

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**What happens:** use, approve · **To what, where:** Swahili

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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: 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:512
# text = Swahili, a widely used language throughout the African Great Lakes region, was approved as the country's second official national language in 2005.
1	Swahili	swahili	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	widely	widely	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	amod	_	_
6	language	language	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
7	throughout	throughout	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
9	African	African	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
10	Great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
11	Lakes	Lake	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	12	compound	_	_
12	region	region	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux:pass	_	_
15	approved	approve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
16	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	's	's	PART	POS	_	18	case	_	_
20	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	23	amod	_	_
21	official	official	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
22	national	national	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	language	language	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	xcomp	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	2005	2005	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **use** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | widely *property* | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **approve** | past · passive |  | Swahili |  |  |  | the country's second official national language in 2005 *xcomp* | vn allow-64.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Beneficiary |

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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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