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title: The national football team demonstrates relatively low performance i… — Azerbaijan · tree and pragmatics
description: The national football team demonstrates relatively low performance in the international arena compared to the nation football clubs. Who acts: national football team. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Azerbaijan» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Azerbaijan, sentence 499

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From Wikipedia, [«Azerbaijan»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azerbaijan), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.

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The national football team demonstrates relatively low performance in the international arena compared to the nation football clubs.

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**Who acts:** national football team · **What happens:** demonstrate, compare · **To what, where:** low performance, international arena

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Azerbaijan». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (national football team), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = wikipedia:Azerbaijan:499
# text = The national football team demonstrates relatively low performance in the international arena compared to the nation football clubs.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	national	national	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	football	football	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	team	team	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	demonstrates	demonstrate	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	relatively	relatively	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	low	low	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	performance	performance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	international	international	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	arena	arena	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
13	compared	compare	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
16	nation	nation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
17	football	football	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	clubs	club	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **demonstrate** | present | the national football team | low performance |  | the international arena |  |  | vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot performance=Topic |
| 2 | **compare** | participle |  | the international arena *not said here* |  |  |  | to the nation football clubs | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient |

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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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**Text:** the English Wikipedia, «Azerbaijan», 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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