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title: Swahili is not favoured by the Bantu-speaking populations of the sou… — Uganda · tree and pragmatics
description: Swahili is not favoured by the Bantu-speaking populations of the south and south-west of Uganda, but is an important lingua franca in the northern regions. Who acts: speaking populations. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Uganda» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Uganda, sentence 515

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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 is not favoured by the Bantu-speaking populations of the south and south-west of Uganda, but is an important lingua franca in the northern regions.

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**Who acts:** speaking populations · **What happens:** not favour, speak, be · **To what, where:** Swahili, important lingua, northern regions · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (speaking populations), 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:515
# text = Swahili is not favoured by the Bantu-speaking populations of the south and south-west of Uganda, but is an important lingua franca in the northern regions.
1	Swahili	swahili	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	favoured	favour	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
7	Bantu	Bantu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	speaking	speak	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	amod	_	_
10	populations	population	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	south	south	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	south	south	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	west	west	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	Uganda	Uganda	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
21	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
22	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
23	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	important	important	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	lingua	lingua	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
26	franca	franca	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	appos	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	northern	northern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	regions	region	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **favour** | present · passive | the speaking populations of the south and south west of Uganda | Swahili |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **speak** *speech: other* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | Bantu *compound* | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** | present |  | a important lingua |  | the northern regions |  | franca *appos* | 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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