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title: Football is the most popular sport in Zambia, and the Zambia nationa… — Zambia · tree and pragmatics
description: Football is the most popular sport in Zambia, and the Zambia national football team has had its triumphant moments in football history. Who acts: Football, Zambia, national football team. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Zambia» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Zambia, sentence 398

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From Wikipedia, [«Zambia»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zambia), 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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Football is the most popular sport in Zambia, and the Zambia national football team has had its triumphant moments in football history.

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**Who acts:** Football, Zambia, national football team · **What happens:** be, team, have · **To what, where:** popular sport, Zambia, football history

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Zambia». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Football, Zambia, national football team), 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:Zambia:398
# text = Football is the most popular sport in Zambia, and the Zambia national football team has had its triumphant moments in football history.
1	Football	football	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	5	advmod	_	_
5	popular	popular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	sport	sport	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Zambia	Zambia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
12	Zambia	Zambia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
13	national	national	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
14	football	football	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	team	team	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
16	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	had	have	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	parataxis	_	_
18	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
19	triumphant	triumphant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	moments	moment	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	football	football	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	history	history	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Football | the popular sport |  | Zambia |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **team** |  | Zambia |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **have** | present · perfect | the national football team |  |  | football history | moment |  | 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, «Zambia», 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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