Zambia, sentence 398
From Wikipedia, «Zambia», 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.
Football is the most popular sport in Zambia, and the Zambia national football team has had its triumphant moments in football history.
Who acts: Football, Zambia, national football team · What happens: be, team, have · To what, where: popular sport, Zambia, football history
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Zambia». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Football, Zambia, national football team), 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 | Football | football | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sport | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 sport | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 sport | det |
| 4 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 5 popular | advmod |
| 5 | popular | popular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 sport | amod |
| 6 | sport | sport | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 Zambia | case |
| 8 | Zambia | Zambia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 sport | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 had | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 had | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 team | det |
| 12 | Zambia | Zambia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 team | nsubj |
| 13 | national | national | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 team | amod |
| 14 | football | football | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 team | compound |
| 15 | team | team | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 had | nsubj |
| 16 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 had | aux |
| 17 | had | have | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 sport | parataxis |
| 18 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 moments | nmod:poss |
| 19 | triumphant | triumphant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 moments | amod |
| 20 | moments | moment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 had | obj |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 history | case |
| 22 | football | football | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 history | compound |
| 23 | history | history | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 had | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 sport | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Football | the popular sport | Zambia | tree rules | |||
| 2 | team | Zambia | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | have | present · perfect | the national football team | football history | moment | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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.
Text: the English Wikipedia, «Zambia», 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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