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title: The ratio of the Christian to Muslim population has largely remained… — Ethiopia · tree and pragmatics
description: The ratio of the Christian to Muslim population has largely remained stable when compared to previous censuses. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Ethiopia» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Ethiopia, sentence 452

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From Wikipedia, [«Ethiopia»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethiopia), 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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The ratio of the Christian to Muslim population has largely remained stable when compared to previous censuses.

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**What happens:** remain, compare · **To what, where:** ratio

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Ethiopia». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:Ethiopia:452
# text = The ratio of the Christian to Muslim population has largely remained stable when compared to previous censuses.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	ratio	ratio	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Christian	Christian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	nmod	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	Muslim	Muslim	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	population	population	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	largely	largely	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	remained	remain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
12	stable	stable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	xcomp	_	_
13	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	14	advmod	_	_
14	compared	compare	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	advcl	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	previous	previous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	censuses	census	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **remain** | present · perfect · passive |  | the ratio of the Christian to Muslim population |  |  |  | largely, stable *property* | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Attribute |
| 2 | **compare** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | to previous censuses | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=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, «Ethiopia», 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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