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title: Formal religious practice is managed by "patriotic associations" for… — China · tree and pragmatics
description: Formal religious practice is managed by "patriotic associations" for each of the recognized faiths overseen by the CCP's United Front Work Department. Who acts: patriotic associations. A sentence of Wikipedia's «China» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# China, sentence 342

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From Wikipedia, [«China»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China), 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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Formal religious practice is managed by "patriotic associations" for each of the recognized faiths overseen by the CCP's United Front Work Department.

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**Who acts:** patriotic associations · **What happens:** manage, recognize, oversee · **To what, where:** Formal religious practice, recognized faiths

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «China». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (patriotic associations), 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:China:342
# text = Formal religious practice is managed by "patriotic associations" for each of the recognized faiths overseen by the CCP's United Front Work Department.
1	Formal	formal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	religious	religious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	practice	practice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	managed	manage	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	patriotic	patriotic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	associations	association	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	9	nmod	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	recognized	recognize	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	amod	_	_
16	faiths	faith	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	_
17	overseen	oversee	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	acl	_	_
18	by	by	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	CCP	CCP	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	's	's	PART	POS	_	20	case	_	_
22	United	United	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	Front	Front	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	Work	Work	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	Department	Department	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obl:agent	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **manage** | present · passive | patriotic associations for each of the recognized faiths | Formal religious practice |  |  |  |  | vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
| 2 | **recognize** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **oversee** | participle |  | the recognized faiths *not said here* |  |  |  | the CCP's Work Department *obl:agent* | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.predicate»: 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, «China», 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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