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title: Portugal has contributed to the popularity and globalisation of spor… — Portugal · tree and pragmatics
description: Portugal has contributed to the popularity and globalisation of sport through internationally recognised athletes such as Cristiano Ronaldo, Ricardinho, Naide Gomes, and Carlos Lopes, as well as through the popularity of its three largest football clubs. Who acts: Portugal. A sentence of Wikipedia's
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# Portugal, sentence 361

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From Wikipedia, [«Portugal»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portugal), 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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Portugal has contributed to the popularity and globalisation of sport through internationally recognised athletes such as Cristiano Ronaldo, Ricardinho, Naide Gomes, and Carlos Lopes, as well as through the popularity of its three largest football clubs.

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**Who acts:** Portugal · **What happens:** contribute, recognise, globalise · **To what, where:** Carlos Lopes, popularity, recognised athletes, sport

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Portugal». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Portugal), 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:Portugal:361
# text = Portugal has contributed to the popularity and globalisation of sport through internationally recognised athletes such as Cristiano Ronaldo, Ricardinho, Naide Gomes, and Carlos Lopes, as well as through the popularity of its three largest football clubs.
1	Portugal	Portugal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	contributed	contribute	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	popularity	popularity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	globalisation	globalisation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	sport	sport	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
11	through	through	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	internationally	internationally	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	recognised	recognise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	amod	_	_
14	athletes	athlete	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
15	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	18	case	_	_
16	as	as	ADP	IN	_	15	fixed	_	_
17	Cristiano	Cristiano	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	Ronaldo	Ronaldo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	Ricardinho	Ricardinho	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	Naide	Naide	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	Gomes	Gome	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	Carlos	Carlos	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	Lopes	lope	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
29	as	as	ADV	RB	ExtPos=CCONJ	34	cc	_	_
30	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	29	fixed	_	_
31	as	as	ADP	IN	_	29	fixed	_	_
32	through	through	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	popularity	popularity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
36	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	40	nmod:poss	_	_
37	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	40	nummod	_	_
38	largest	large	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	40	amod	_	_
39	football	football	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	compound	_	_
40	clubs	club	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **contribute** | present · perfect | Portugal | Carlos Lopes | the popularity and globalisation of sport | recognised athletes such Cristiano Ronaldo and Ricardinho and Naide Gomes |  | through the popularity of sport's three largest football clubs | vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to popularity=Recipient |
| 2 | **recognise** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | internationally *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **globalise** |  |  | sport |  |  |  |  | nom globalisation «process transitive»: of=patient |

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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, «Portugal», 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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