Republic of the Congo, sentence 190
From Wikipedia, «Republic of the Congo», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.
The most popular sports in the country are basketball, football, rugby union, volleyball, and tennis.
Who acts: popular sports · What happens: be · To what, where: basketball
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Republic of the Congo». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (popular sports), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 sports | det |
| 2 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 3 popular | advmod |
| 3 | popular | popular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 sports | amod |
| 4 | sports | sport | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 basketball | nsubj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 country | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 country | det |
| 7 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sports | nmod |
| 8 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 basketball | cop |
| 9 | basketball | basketball | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 football | punct |
| 11 | football | football | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 basketball | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 union | punct |
| 13 | rugby | rugby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 union | compound |
| 14 | union | union | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 basketball | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 volleyball | punct |
| 16 | volleyball | volleyball | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 union | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 tennis | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 tennis | cc |
| 19 | tennis | tennis | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 basketball | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 basketball | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the popular sports in the country | basketball and football and rugby union and volleyball and tennis | tree rules |
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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