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title: During the 1930s, baseball's popularity continued to rise, leading t… — Venezuela · tree and pragmatics
description: During the 1930s, baseball's popularity continued to rise, leading to the foundation of the Venezuelan Professional Baseball League in 1945, and the sport became the nation's most popular. Who acts: popularity, sport. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Venezuela» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Venezuela, sentence 687

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From Wikipedia, [«Venezuela»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venezuela), 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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During the 1930s, baseball's popularity continued to rise, leading to the foundation of the Venezuelan Professional Baseball League in 1945, and the sport became the nation's most popular.

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**Who acts:** popularity, sport · **What happens:** continue, rise, lead, become · **To what, where:** 1945

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Venezuela». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (popularity, sport), 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:Venezuela:687
# text = During the 1930s, baseball's popularity continued to rise, leading to the foundation of the Venezuelan Professional Baseball League in 1945, and the sport became the nation's most popular.
1	During	during	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	1930s	1930	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	baseball	baseball	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	popularity	popularity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	continued	continue	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	rise	rise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	leading	lead	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	foundation	foundation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
18	Venezuelan	Venezuelan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	Professional	Professional	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
20	Baseball	Baseball	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	League	League	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	1945	1945	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	sport	sport	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
28	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	nation	nation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	's	's	PART	POS	_	30	case	_	_
32	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	33	advmod	_	_
33	popular	popular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **continue** | past | baseball's popularity |  |  |  | during the 1930s |  | vn continue-55.3 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **rise** | to-infinitive | baseball's popularity *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **lead** | gerund | baseball's popularity *not said here* |  |  | 1945 |  | to the foundation of the Professional Baseball League | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to foundation=Patient |
| 4 | **become** | past | the sport |  |  |  |  |  | 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, «Venezuela», 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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