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title: In the pre-Independence elections, the UPC ran no candidates in Buga… — Uganda · tree and pragmatics
description: In the pre-Independence elections, the UPC ran no candidates in Buganda and won 37 of the 61 directly elected seats (outside Buganda). Who acts: UPC. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Uganda» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Uganda, sentence 76

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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 the pre-Independence elections, the UPC ran no candidates in Buganda and won 37 of the 61 directly elected seats (outside Buganda).

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**Who acts:** UPC · **What happens:** run, win, elect · **To what, where:** candidates, pre-Independence elections, 37

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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 (UPC), 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:76
# text = In the pre-Independence elections, the UPC ran no candidates in Buganda and won 37 of the 61 directly elected seats (outside Buganda).
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	pre-Independence	pre-independence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	elections	election	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	UPC	UPC	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	10	det	_	_
10	candidates	candidate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Buganda	Buganda	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	won	win	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
15	37	37	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	14	obj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
18	61	61	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	21	nummod	_	_
19	directly	directly	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	elected	elect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	amod	_	_
21	seats	seat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	_
22	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	outside	outside	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	Buganda	Buganda	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run** | past | the UPC | no candidates |  | the pre-Independence elections |  | in Buganda | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent candidate=Theme in election=Trajectory |
| 2 | **win** | past | the UPC *not said here* | 37 of the 61 elected seats |  |  |  | Buganda *parataxis* | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 37=Eventuality |
| 3 | **elect** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | directly *property* | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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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