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title: A 2025 Afrobarometer survey found that 89.9% of Comorians primarily… — Comoros · tree and pragmatics
description: A 2025 Afrobarometer survey found that 89.9% of Comorians primarily speak Shikomori at home while 9.9% have French as their main home language. Who acts: 2025 Afrobarometer survey, 9.9 %. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Comoros» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Comoros, sentence 241

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From Wikipedia, [«Comoros»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comoros), 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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A 2025 Afrobarometer survey found that 89.9% of Comorians primarily speak Shikomori at home while 9.9% have French as their main home language.

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**Who acts:** 2025 Afrobarometer survey, 9.9 % · **What happens:** find, speak, have · **To what, where:** Shikomori, home, French · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Comoros». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (2025 Afrobarometer survey, 9.9 %), 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:Comoros:241
# text = A 2025 Afrobarometer survey found that 89.9% of Comorians primarily speak Shikomori at home while 9.9% have French as their main home language.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	2025	2025	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
3	Afrobarometer	Afrobarometer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	survey	survey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
7	89.9	89.9	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	%	%	SYM	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Comorians	Comorian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	_
11	primarily	primarily	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	speak	speak	VERB	VB	Mood=Sub|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	ccomp	_	_
13	Shikomori	Shikomori	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
14	at	at	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
17	9.9	9.9	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	18	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	%	%	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
19	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
20	French	French	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	obj	_	_
21	as	as	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
22	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
23	main	main	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
24	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	language	language	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	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 | **find** | past | a 2025 Afrobarometer survey |  |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **speak** *speech: other* | infinitive |  | Shikomori |  | home |  | primarily *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **have** | present | 9.9 % | French as %'s main home language |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent french=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, «Comoros», 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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