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title: Nicknamed "The Scorpions", the national side have never qualified fo… — The Gambia · tree and pragmatics
description: Nicknamed "The Scorpions", the national side have never qualified for the FIFA World Cup, but qualified for the Africa Cup of Nations at senior level for the first time in 2021. Who acts: Nicknamed Scorpions. A sentence of Wikipedia's «The Gambia» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# The Gambia, sentence 379

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From Wikipedia, [«The Gambia»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gambia), 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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Nicknamed "The Scorpions", the national side have never qualified for the FIFA World Cup, but qualified for the Africa Cup of Nations at senior level for the first time in 2021.

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**Who acts:** Nicknamed Scorpions · **What happens:** nickname, have

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «The Gambia». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Nicknamed Scorpions), 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_Gambia:379
# text = Nicknamed "The Scorpions", the national side have never qualified for the FIFA World Cup, but qualified for the Africa Cup of Nations at senior level for the first time in 2021.
1	Nicknamed	nickname	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	amod	_	_
2	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	Scorpions	Scorpion	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	national	national	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
10	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
12	qualified	qualified	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	xcomp	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
15	FIFA	FIFA	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
16	World	World	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	Cup	Cup	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	qualified	qualified	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	conj	_	_
21	for	for	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	Africa	Africa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	Cup	Cup	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	Nations	Nation	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	24	nmod	_	_
27	at	at	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	senior	senior	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	level	level	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
30	for	for	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	33	amod	_	_
33	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	_
34	in	in	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	2021	2021	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	33	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **nickname** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **have** | present | the Nicknamed Scorpions and the national side |  |  |  |  | qualified *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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, «The Gambia», 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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