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title: Some continue to hold Vodun and Orisha beliefs and have incorporated… — Benin · tree and pragmatics
description: Some continue to hold Vodun and Orisha beliefs and have incorporated the pantheon of Vodun and Orisha into Christianity. Who acts: Some. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Benin» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Benin, sentence 160

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From Wikipedia, [«Benin»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benin), 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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Some continue to hold Vodun and Orisha beliefs and have incorporated the pantheon of Vodun and Orisha into Christianity.

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**Who acts:** Some · **What happens:** continue, hold, incorporate · **To what, where:** Vodun beliefs, pantheon

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Benin». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Some), 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:Benin:160
# text = Some continue to hold Vodun and Orisha beliefs and have incorporated the pantheon of Vodun and Orisha into Christianity.
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	nsubj	_	_
2	continue	continue	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	hold	hold	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
5	Vodun	Vodun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	Orisha	Orisha	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
8	beliefs	belief	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	incorporated	incorporate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	conj	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	pantheon	pantheon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Vodun	Vodun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	Orisha	Orisha	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
18	into	into	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	Christianity	Christianity	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **continue** | present | Some |  |  |  |  |  | vn continue-55.3 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **hold** | to-infinitive | Some *not said here* | Vodun beliefs |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent belief=Theme |
| 3 | **incorporate** | present · perfect | Some *not said here* | the pantheon of Vodun and Orisha |  |  |  | into Christianity | vn amalgamate-22.2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent pantheon=Patient into christianity=Co-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, «Benin», 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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