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title: Basketball is growing in popularity, but its national team is yet to… — Malawi · tree and pragmatics
description: Basketball is growing in popularity, but its national team is yet to participate in any international competition. Who acts: Basketball, national team. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Malawi» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Malawi, sentence 295

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From Wikipedia, [«Malawi»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malawi), 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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Basketball is growing in popularity, but its national team is yet to participate in any international competition.

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**Who acts:** Basketball, national team · **What happens:** grow, be · **To what, where:** popularity, international competition

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Malawi». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Basketball, national 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:Malawi:295
# text = Basketball is growing in popularity, but its national team is yet to participate in any international competition.
1	Basketball	basketball	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	growing	grow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	popularity	popularity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
7	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
8	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
9	national	national	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	team	team	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
12	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	participate	participate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	18	det	_	_
17	international	international	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	competition	competition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | present · progressive | Basketball |  |  | popularity |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in popularity=Location |
| 2 | **is** | present | Basketball's national team |  |  | any international competition | yet | participate *property* | tree rules |

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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, «Malawi», 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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