Zimbabwe, sentence 449
From Wikipedia, «Zimbabwe», 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.
Ancestral worship is the most practised non-Christian religion, involving spiritual intercession.
Who acts: Ancestral worship, practised non-Christian religion · What happens: practise, be, involve · To what, where: practised non-Christian religion, spiritual intercession
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Zimbabwe». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ancestral worship, practised non-Christian religion), 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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ancestral | ancestral | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 worship | amod |
| 2 | worship | worship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 religion | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 religion | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 religion | det |
| 5 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 6 practised | advmod |
| 6 | practised | practise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 religion | amod |
| 7 | non-Christian | non-christian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 religion | amod |
| 8 | religion | religion | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 involving | punct |
| 10 | involving | involve | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 religion | acl |
| 11 | spiritual | spiritual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 intercession | amod |
| 12 | intercession | intercession | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 involving | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 religion | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | practise | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | is a | present | Ancestral worship | the practised non-Christian religion | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | involve | gerund | the practised non-Christian religion not said here | spiritual intercession | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent intercession=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.
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