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title: The Uganda Communications Commission (UCC) prepared regulations star… — Uganda · tree and pragmatics
description: The Uganda Communications Commission (UCC) prepared regulations starting in 2014 that required Ugandan television to broadcast 70 per cent Ugandan content and of this, 40 per cent to be independent productions. Who acts: prepared regulations. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Uganda» with its dependency tr
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# Uganda, sentence 592

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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 Uganda Communications Commission (UCC) prepared regulations starting in 2014 that required Ugandan television to broadcast 70 per cent Ugandan content and of this, 40 per cent to be independent productions.

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**Who acts:** prepared regulations · **What happens:** start, require, broadcast, be · **To what, where:** 2014, Ugandan television, cent Ugandan content, independent productions, prepared regulations

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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 (prepared regulations), 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:592
# text = The Uganda Communications Commission (UCC) prepared regulations starting in 2014 that required Ugandan television to broadcast 70 per cent Ugandan content and of this, 40 per cent to be independent productions.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	Uganda	Uganda	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Communications	Communication	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	4	compound	_	_
4	Commission	commission	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
5	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	UCC	ucc	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	6	punct	_	_
8	prepared	prepared	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	regulations	regulation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
10	starting	start	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	acl	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	2014	2014	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	obl	_	_
13	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
14	required	require	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
15	Ugandan	Ugandan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	television	television	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	broadcast	broadcast	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	_
19	70	70	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	21	nummod	_	_
20	per	per	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	cent	cent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
22	Ugandan	Ugandan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	content	content	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
28	40	40	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	30	nummod	_	_
29	per	per	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	cent	cent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	_
31	to	to	PART	TO	_	34	mark	_	_
32	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	34	cop	_	_
33	independent	independent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	productions	production	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **start** | gerund | prepared regulations  the Communications Commission *not said here* |  |  | 2014 |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 2 | **require** | past | prepared regulations  the Communications Commission | Ugandan television |  |  |  |  | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent television=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **broadcast** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | prepared regulations  the Communications Commission *not said here* | cent Ugandan content and 40 per cent of this |  |  |  |  | vn instr\_communication-37.4.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent content=Topic |
| 4 | **is a** | to-infinitive |  | independent productions |  |  |  |  | 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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