United Kingdom, sentence 634
From Wikipedia, «United Kingdom», 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.
In 2003 rugby union was ranked the second-most-popular sport in the UK.
What happens: rank · To what, where: second popular sport, 2003 rugby union
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «United Kingdom». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 union | case |
| 2 | 2003 | 2003 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 union | compound |
| 3 | rugby | rugby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 union | compound |
| 4 | union | union | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 ranked | obl |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 ranked | aux:pass |
| 6 | ranked | rank | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 sport | det |
| 8 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 13 sport | amod |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 second | punct |
| 10 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 12 popular | advmod |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 most | punct |
| 12 | popular | popular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 sport | amod |
| 13 | sport | sport | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 ranked | obj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 UK | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 UK | det |
| 16 | UK | UK | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 sport | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 ranked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rank | past · passive | the second popular sport | 2003 rugby union | in the UK | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: sport=Theme |
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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