--- title: Other popular sports are American football, rugby, field hockey, sof… — Panama · tree and pragmatics description: Other popular sports are American football, rugby, field hockey, softball, and other amateur sports, including skateboarding, BMX, and surfing, because the many beaches of Panama such as Santa Catalina and Venao that have hosted events the likes of ISA World Surfing Games. 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Other popular sports are American football, rugby, field hockey, softball, and other amateur sports, including skateboarding, BMX, and surfing, because the many beaches of Panama such as Santa Catalina and Venao that have hosted events the likes of ISA World Surfing Games. **Who acts:** Other popular sports, skateboarding · **What happens:** be, surf, host · **To what, where:** American football, many beaches This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Panama». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Other popular sports, skateboarding), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:Panama:489 # text = Other popular sports are American football, rugby, field hockey, softball, and other amateur sports, including skateboarding, BMX, and surfing, because the many beaches of Panama such as Santa Catalina and Venao that have hosted events the likes of ISA World Surfing Games. 1 Other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 2 popular popular ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 sports sport NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 4 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 5 American American ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 football football NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 8 rugby rugby NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 field field NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 compound _ _ 11 hockey hockey NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 softball softball NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 16 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 17 amateur amateur NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 compound _ _ 18 sports sport NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 including including ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 skateboarding skateboarding NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 23 BMX BMX PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 26 surfing surf VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 21 acl _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 28 because because SCONJ IN _ 31 mark _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 30 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 beaches beach NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 obl _ _ 32 of of ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 Panama Panama PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 nmod _ _ 34 such such ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP 36 case _ _ 35 as as ADP IN _ 34 fixed _ _ 36 Santa Santa PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 nmod _ _ 37 Catalina Catalina PROPN NNP Number=Sing 36 flat _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 39 Venao Venao PROPN NNP Number=Sing 36 conj _ _ 40 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 42 nsubj:pass _ _ 41 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 42 aux _ _ 42 hosted host VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 31 acl:relcl _ _ 43 events event NOUN NNS Number=Plur 42 obj _ _ 44 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 45 likes like NOUN NNS Number=Plur 43 conj _ _ 46 of of ADP IN _ 50 case _ _ 47 ISA ISA PROPN NNP Number=Sing 50 compound _ _ 48 World World PROPN NNP Number=Sing 50 compound _ _ 49 Surfing Surfing PROPN NNP Number=Sing 50 compound _ _ 50 Games Game PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 45 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 51 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | Other popular sports | American football and rugby and field hockey and softball and other amateur sports | | | | rugby *conj*; field hockey and softball *conj*; other amateur sports *conj* | tree rules | | 2 | **surf** | gerund | skateboarding *not said here* | the many beaches of Panama such Santa and Venao | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **host** | present · perfect · passive | | the many beaches of Panama such Santa and Venao | | | | events and the likes of ISA World Surfing Games *obj* | vn conduct-111.1 «NP V NP PP»: subject=Theme event=Beneficiary | 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. **Text:** the English Wikipedia, «Panama», 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. - ← previous: [sentence 488](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Panama/488/) - next →: [sentence 490](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Panama/490/) - ↑ back to [Panama](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Panama/)