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title: Today most Christians live in Africa, Latin America and Asia. — Churches of the English-speaking world II · tree and pragmatics
description: Today most Christians live in Africa, Latin America and Asia. Who acts: most Christians. A sentence of the lesson «Churches of the English-speaking world II» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Churches of the English-speaking world II, sentence 18

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Today most Christians live in Africa, Latin America and Asia.

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**Who acts:** most Christians · **What happens:** live · **To what, where:** Africa

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Churches of the English-speaking world II» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (most Christians), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:religion-ethics:029-churches-of-the-english-speaking-world-ii.lesson:18
# text = Today most Christians live in Africa, Latin America and Asia.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = religion-ethics
# lesson = 029-churches-of-the-english-speaking-world-ii.lesson
# annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): no change
1	Today	today	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
2	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	3	amod	_	_
3	Christians	Christian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	live	live	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Africa	Africa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	Latin	Latin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	America	America	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	Asia	Asia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | present | most Christians |  |  | Africa and Latin America and Asia | today |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in africa=Location |

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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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**The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): no change. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.

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