--- title: In 2003 rugby union was ranked the second-most-popular sport in the… — United Kingdom · tree and pragmatics description: In 2003 rugby union was ranked the second-most-popular sport in the UK. A sentence of Wikipedia's «United Kingdom» with its dependency tree and pragmatics. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/United_Kingdom/634/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [wikipedia](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/) / [en](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/) / [United Kingdom](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/United_Kingdom/) / 634 # United Kingdom, sentence 634 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. In 2003 rugby union was ranked the second-most-popular sport in the UK. **What happens:** rank · **To what, where:** second popular sport, 2003 rugby union 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: 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:United_Kingdom:634 # text = In 2003 rugby union was ranked the second-most-popular sport in the UK. 1 In in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 2003 2003 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 4 compound _ _ 3 rugby rugby NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 union union NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 5 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 aux:pass _ _ 6 ranked rank VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 8 second second ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 13 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 9 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 8 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 most most ADV RBS Degree=Sup 12 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 11 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 10 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 12 popular popular ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 sport sport NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 14 in in ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 UK UK PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 17 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **rank** | past · passive | | the second popular sport | | 2003 rugby union | | in the UK | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S\_ING»: sport=Theme | 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, «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. - ← previous: [sentence 633](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/United_Kingdom/633/) - next →: [sentence 635](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/United_Kingdom/635/) - ↑ back to [United Kingdom](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/United_Kingdom/)