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title: Football is largely considered Nigeria's national sport, and the cou… — Nigeria · tree and pragmatics
description: Football is largely considered Nigeria's national sport, and the country has its own professional football league. Who acts: country, Nigeria. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Nigeria» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Nigeria, sentence 702

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From Wikipedia, [«Nigeria»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigeria), 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 largely considered Nigeria's national sport, and the country has its own professional football league.

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**Who acts:** country, Nigeria · **What happens:** consider, have, sport · **To what, where:** Football, own professional football league

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Nigeria». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (country, Nigeria), 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:Nigeria:702
# text = Football is largely considered Nigeria's national sport, and the country has its own professional football league.
1	Football	football	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
3	largely	largely	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	considered	consider	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	Nigeria	Nigeria	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	national	national	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	sport	sport	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
14	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
15	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
16	professional	professional	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
17	football	football	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	league	league	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **consider** | present · passive |  | Football |  |  |  | Nigeria's national sport *xcomp*; largely *property* | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute |
| 2 | **have** | present | the country | country's own professional football league |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent league=Patient |
| 3 | **sport** |  | Nigeria |  |  |  |  |  | nom sport «act intransitive»: poss=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, «Nigeria», 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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