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title: Christianity is the predominant religion of the non-Malay bumiputera… — Malaysia · tree and pragmatics
description: Christianity is the predominant religion of the non-Malay bumiputera community (46.5%), while 40.4% identify as Muslims. Who acts: Christianity, 40.4 %. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Malaysia» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Malaysia, sentence 369

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From Wikipedia, [«Malaysia»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malaysia), 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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Christianity is the predominant religion of the non-Malay bumiputera community (46.5%), while 40.4% identify as Muslims.

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**Who acts:** Christianity, 40.4 % · **What happens:** be, identify · **To what, where:** predominant religion

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Malaysia». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Christianity, 40.4 %), 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:Malaysia:369
# text = Christianity is the predominant religion of the non-Malay bumiputera community (46.5%), while 40.4% identify as Muslims.
1	Christianity	Christianity	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	predominant	predominant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	religion	religion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	non-Malay	non-malay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	bumiputera	bumiputera	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	community	community	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
11	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	46.5	46.5	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	%	%	SYM	NN	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
17	40.4	40.4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	18	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	%	%	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
19	identify	identify	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
20	as	as	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	Muslims	Muslim	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Christianity | the predominant religion |  |  |  | of the bumiputera community | tree rules |
| 2 | **identify** | present | 40.4 % |  |  |  |  | as Muslims | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent as muslim=Attribute |

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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, «Malaysia», 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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