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title: Japan has one of the most successful football teams in Asia, winning… — Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: Japan has one of the most successful football teams in Asia, winning the Asian Cup four times, and the FIFA Women's World Cup in 2011. Who acts: Japan. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Japan» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Japan, sentence 425

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From Wikipedia, [«Japan»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan), 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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Japan has one of the most successful football teams in Asia, winning the Asian Cup four times, and the FIFA Women's World Cup in 2011.

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**Who acts:** Japan · **What happens:** have, win · **To what, where:** one, Asian Cup

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Japan». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Japan), 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:Japan:425
# text = Japan has one of the most successful football teams in Asia, winning the Asian Cup four times, and the FIFA Women's World Cup in 2011.
1	Japan	Japan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	obj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
6	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	7	advmod	_	_
7	successful	successful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	football	football	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	teams	team	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Asia	Asia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	winning	win	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	Asian	Asian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	Cup	cup	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
17	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	nummod	_	_
18	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	FIFA	FIFA	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	Women	Women	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	's	's	PART	POS	_	23	case	_	_
25	World	World	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	Cup	Cup	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	2011	2011	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | Japan | one of the successful football teams in Asia |  |  |  | the FIFA Women's World Cup in 2011 *parataxis* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient |
| 2 | **win** | gerund | Japan *not said here* | the Asian Cup |  |  | time |  | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cup=Eventuality |

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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, «Japan», 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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