Venezuela, sentence 687
From Wikipedia, «Venezuela», 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.
During the 1930s, baseball's popularity continued to rise, leading to the foundation of the Venezuelan Professional Baseball League in 1945, and the sport became the nation's most popular.
Who acts: popularity, sport · What happens: continue, rise, lead, become · To what, where: 1945
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Venezuela». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (popularity, sport), 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 | During | during | ADP | _ | 3 1930s | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 1930s | det |
| 3 | 1930s | 1930 | NOUN | Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card | 8 continued | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 1930s | punct |
| 5 | baseball | baseball | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 popularity | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 baseball | case |
| 7 | popularity | popularity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 continued | nsubj |
| 8 | continued | continue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 rise | mark |
| 10 | rise | rise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 continued | xcomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 leading | punct |
| 12 | leading | lead | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 rise | advcl |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 foundation | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 foundation | det |
| 15 | foundation | foundation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 leading | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 League | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 League | det |
| 18 | Venezuelan | Venezuelan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Professional | compound |
| 19 | Professional | Professional | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 League | amod |
| 20 | Baseball | Baseball | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 League | compound |
| 21 | League | League | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 foundation | nmod |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 1945 | case |
| 23 | 1945 | 1945 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 12 leading | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 became | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 became | cc |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 sport | det |
| 27 | sport | sport | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 became | nsubj |
| 28 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 continued | conj |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 nation | det |
| 30 | nation | nation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 popular | nmod:poss |
| 31 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 30 nation | case |
| 32 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 33 popular | advmod |
| 33 | popular | popular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 became | conj |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 continued | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | continue | past | baseball's popularity | during the 1930s | vn continue-55.3 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | rise | to-infinitive | baseball's popularity not said here | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | lead | gerund | baseball's popularity not said here | 1945 | to the foundation of the Professional Baseball League | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to foundation=Patient | |||
| 4 | become | past | the sport | 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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