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Palestine, sentence 28

From Wikipedia, «Palestine», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.

While the majority of Palestinians practice Islam, Christianity also has a presence.

Who acts: majority, Christianity · What happens: practice, have · To what, where: Islam, presence

This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Palestine». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (majority, Christianity), 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

markdetnsubjcasenmodadvclobjpunctnsubjadvmoddetobjpunctrootWhileSCONJtheDETmajorityNOUNofADPPalestiniansPROPNpracticeVERBIslamPROPN,PUNCTChristianityPROPNalsoADVhasVERBaDETpresenceNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1WhilewhileSCONJ_6 practicemark
2thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art3 majoritydet
3majoritymajorityNOUNNumber=Sing6 practicensubj
4ofofADP_5 Palestinianscase
5PalestiniansPalestinianPROPNNumber=Plur3 majoritynmod
6practicepracticeVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin11 hasadvcl
7IslamIslamPROPNNumber=Sing6 practiceobj
8,,PUNCT_6 practicepunct
9ChristianityChristianityPROPNNumber=Sing11 hasnsubj
10alsoalsoADV_11 hasadvmod
11hashaveVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Finrootroot
12aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art13 presencedet
13presencepresenceNOUNNumber=Sing11 hasobj
14..PUNCT_11 haspunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1practicepresentthe majority of PalestiniansIslamvn rehearse-26.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent islam=Theme
2havepresentChristianitya presencevn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent presence=Patient

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, «Palestine», 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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