The Bahamas, sentence 350
From Wikipedia, «The Bahamas», 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.
Over the years, American football has become much more popular than soccer.
Who acts: American football · What happens: become
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «The Bahamas». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (American football), 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 | Over | over | ADP | _ | 3 years | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 years | det |
| 3 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 become | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 years | punct |
| 5 | American | American | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 football | amod |
| 6 | football | football | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 become | nsubj |
| 7 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 become | aux |
| 8 | become | become | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 9 | much | much | ADV | _ | 10 more | advmod |
| 10 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 11 popular | advmod |
| 11 | popular | popular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 become | xcomp |
| 12 | than | than | ADP | _ | 13 soccer | case |
| 13 | soccer | soccer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 popular | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 become | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | present · perfect | American football | year | popular property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
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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