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title: Almost the entire population of the islands practices some religion:… — Marshall Islands · tree and pragmatics
description: Almost the entire population of the islands practices some religion: three-quarters of the country follows either the United Church of Christ – Congregational in the Marshall Islands (UCCCMI) or the Assemblies of God. Who acts: entire population, three quarters. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Marshall I
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# Marshall Islands, sentence 28

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From Wikipedia, [«Marshall Islands»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshall_Islands), 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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Almost the entire population of the islands practices some religion: three-quarters of the country follows either the United Church of Christ – Congregational in the Marshall Islands (UCCCMI) or the Assemblies of God.

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**Who acts:** entire population, three quarters · **What happens:** practice, follow · **To what, where:** religion

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Marshall Islands». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (entire population, three quarters), 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:Marshall_Islands:28
# text = Almost the entire population of the islands practices some religion: three-quarters of the country follows either the United Church of Christ – Congregational in the Marshall Islands (UCCCMI) or the Assemblies of God.
1	Almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	entire	entire	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	population	population	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	islands	island	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
8	practices	practice	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	10	det	_	_
10	religion	religion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
12	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	quarters	quarter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
18	follows	follow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	_
19	either	either	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc:preconj	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	United	United	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	Church	Church	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	Christ	Christ	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
25	–	-	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	Congregational	Congregational	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	Marshall	Marshall	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	Islands	Island	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	26	nmod	_	_
31	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	UCCCMI	UCCCMI	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	32	punct	_	_
34	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	Assemblies	Assembly	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	22	conj	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **practice** | present | the entire population of the islands | some religion |  |  |  | three quarters  the United Church of Christ and Congregational in the Marshall Islands or the Assemblies of God *obl* | vn rehearse-26.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent religion=Theme |
| 2 | **follow** | present | three quarters  the United Church of Christ and Congregational in the Marshall Islands or the Assemblies of God *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of the country | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent of country=Trajectory |

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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, «Marshall Islands», 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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