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title: Over the years, American football has become much more popular than… — The Bahamas · tree and pragmatics
description: Over the years, American football has become much more popular than soccer. Who acts: American football. A sentence of Wikipedia's «The Bahamas» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# The Bahamas, sentence 350

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From Wikipedia, [«The Bahamas»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bahamas), 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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Over the years, American football has become much more popular than soccer.

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**Who acts:** American football · **What happens:** become

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «The Bahamas». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (American football), 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:The_Bahamas:350
# text = Over the years, American football has become much more popular than soccer.
1	Over	over	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	American	American	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	football	football	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
7	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	become	become	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
9	much	much	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	11	advmod	_	_
11	popular	popular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	xcomp	_	_
12	than	than	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	soccer	soccer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **become** | present · perfect | American football |  |  |  | year | popular *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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, «The Bahamas», 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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