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title: Football is the most popular sport in Harare, particularly among wor… — Harare · tree and pragmatics
description: Football is the most popular sport in Harare, particularly among working-class residents, with the city producing many footballers who have gone on to play in the English Premier League and elsewhere. Who acts: Football, city, many footballers. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Harare» with its dependency 
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# Harare, sentence 172

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From Wikipedia, [«Harare»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harare), 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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Football is the most popular sport in Harare, particularly among working-class residents, with the city producing many footballers who have gone on to play in the English Premier League and elsewhere.

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**Who acts:** Football, city, many footballers · **What happens:** be, work, produce, go on, play · **To what, where:** popular sport, Harare, many footballers

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Harare». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Football, city, many footballers), 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:Harare:172
# text = Football is the most popular sport in Harare, particularly among working-class residents, with the city producing many footballers who have gone on to play in the English Premier League and elsewhere.
1	Football	football	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	5	advmod	_	_
5	popular	popular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	sport	sport	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Harare	Harare	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
10	particularly	particularly	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
11	among	among	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
12	working	work	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	class	class	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	residents	resident	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	appos	_	_
20	producing	produce	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	19	acl	_	_
21	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	footballers	footballer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	_
23	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj	_	_
24	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	22	acl:relcl	_	_
26	on	on	ADP	RP	_	25	compound:prt	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
28	play	play	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	advcl	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
31	English	English	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
32	Premier	Premier	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
33	League	League	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	elsewhere	elsewhere	ADV	RB	_	33	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Football | the popular sport |  | Harare |  | working class residents *parataxis* | tree rules |
| 2 | **work** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **produce** | gerund | the city *not said here* | many footballers |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent footballer=Result |
| 4 | **go on** | present · perfect | many footballers |  |  |  |  |  | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **play** | to-infinitive | many footballers *not said here* |  |  |  |  | in the English Premier League | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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, «Harare», 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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