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title: The English top division, the Premier League, is the most watched fo… — United Kingdom · tree and pragmatics
description: The English top division, the Premier League, is the most watched football league in the world. Who acts: English top division. A sentence of Wikipedia's «United Kingdom» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# United Kingdom, sentence 631

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From Wikipedia, [«United Kingdom»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom), 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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The English top division, the Premier League, is the most watched football league in the world.

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**Who acts:** English top division · **What happens:** watch, be · **To what, where:** watched football league, world

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «United Kingdom». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (English top division), 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:United_Kingdom:631
# text = The English top division, the Premier League, is the most watched football league in the world.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	English	English	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	top	top	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	division	division	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	Premier	Premier	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	League	League	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
12	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	13	advmod	_	_
13	watched	watch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	amod	_	_
14	football	football	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	league	league	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **watch** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | present | the English top division | the watched football league |  | the world |  |  | tree rules |

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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, «United Kingdom», 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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