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title: Rugby league is a relatively new but growing sport in Lebanon. — Lebanon · tree and pragmatics
description: Rugby league is a relatively new but growing sport in Lebanon. Who acts: Rugby league. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Lebanon» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Lebanon, sentence 627

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From Wikipedia, [«Lebanon»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lebanon), 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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Rugby league is a relatively new but growing sport in Lebanon.

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**Who acts:** Rugby league · **What happens:** be, grow · **To what, where:** sport, Lebanon

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Lebanon». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Rugby league), 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:Lebanon:627
# text = Rugby league is a relatively new but growing sport in Lebanon.
1	Rugby	Rugby	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	league	league	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	relatively	relatively	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	growing	grow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	conj	_	_
9	sport	sport	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Lebanon	Lebanon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Rugby league |  |  |  |  | new, relatively *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **grow** | gerund | Rugby league *not said here* | sport |  | Lebanon |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location sport=Theme |

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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, «Lebanon», 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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