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title: Among the places of worship, they are predominantly Christian church… — Lilongwe · tree and pragmatics
description: Among the places of worship, they are predominantly Christian churches and temples: Lutheran Church of Central Africa (Confessional Evangelical Lutheran Conference), Church of Central Africa Presbyterian (World Communion of Reformed Churches), Baptist Convention of Malawi (Baptist World Alliance), A
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# Lilongwe, sentence 141

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From Wikipedia, [«Lilongwe»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lilongwe), 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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Among the places of worship, they are predominantly Christian churches and temples: Lutheran Church of Central Africa (Confessional Evangelical Lutheran Conference), Church of Central Africa Presbyterian (World Communion of Reformed Churches), Baptist Convention of Malawi (Baptist World Alliance), Assemblies of God, Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Lilongwe (Catholic Church).

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**Who acts:** students · **What happens:** be, reform · **To what, where:** Christian churches

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Lilongwe». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (students), 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:Lilongwe:141
# text = Among the places of worship, they are predominantly Christian churches and temples: Lutheran Church of Central Africa (Confessional Evangelical Lutheran Conference), Church of Central Africa Presbyterian (World Communion of Reformed Churches), Baptist Convention of Malawi (Baptist World Alliance), Assemblies of God, Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Lilongwe (Catholic Church).
1	Among	among	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	places	place	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	worship	worship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
7	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
8	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
9	predominantly	predominantly	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
10	Christian	Christian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	churches	church	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	temples	temple	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
15	Lutheran	Lutheran	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	Church	Church	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	Central	Central	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	flat	_	_
19	Africa	Africa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
20	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	Confessional	Confessional	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	Evangelical	Evangelical	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	appos	_	_
23	Lutheran	Lutheran	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	flat	_	_
24	Conference	Conference	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	Church	Church	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	Central	Central	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
30	Africa	Africa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	Presbyterian	Presbyterian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
32	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	34	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	World	World	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	_
34	Communion	Communion	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	appos	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	Reformed	reform	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	37	amod	_	_
37	Churches	church	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	34	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
40	Baptist	Baptist	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	41	compound	_	_
41	Convention	Convention	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
42	of	of	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
43	Malawi	Malawi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	41	nmod	_	_
44	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	47	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	Baptist	Baptist	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	47	compound	_	_
46	World	World	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	47	compound	_	_
47	Alliance	Alliance	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	41	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	47	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
50	Assemblies	assembly	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	_
51	of	of	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
52	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	50	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	56	punct	_	_
54	Roman	roman	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	56	amod	_	_
55	Catholic	catholic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	56	amod	_	_
56	Archdiocese	Archdiocese	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
57	of	of	ADP	IN	_	58	case	_	_
58	Lilongwe	Lilongwe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	56	nmod	_	_
59	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	61	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	Catholic	Catholic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	61	compound	_	_
61	Church	Church	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	56	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
62	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	61	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
63	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | students *= student* | Christian churches and temples |  |  |  | Lutheran Church of Central Africa and Church of Central Africa Presbyterian and Baptist Convention of Malawi and Assemblies of God and Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Lilongwe *nmod*; temples *conj*; predominantly *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **reform** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: 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, «Lilongwe», 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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