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title: City residents follow multiple faiths, with predominantly Christian… — Mbabane · tree and pragmatics
description: City residents follow multiple faiths, with predominantly Christian churches: Roman Catholic Diocese of Manzini (Catholic Church), Swaziland Reformed Church (World Communion of Reformed Churches), and Zion Christian Church. Who acts: City residents. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Mbabane» with its depen
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# Mbabane, sentence 39

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From Wikipedia, [«Mbabane»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mbabane), 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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City residents follow multiple faiths, with predominantly Christian churches: Roman Catholic Diocese of Manzini (Catholic Church), Swaziland Reformed Church (World Communion of Reformed Churches), and Zion Christian Church.

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**Who acts:** City residents · **What happens:** follow, reform · **To what, where:** multiple faiths

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Mbabane». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (City residents), 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:Mbabane:39
# text = City residents follow multiple faiths, with predominantly Christian churches: Roman Catholic Diocese of Manzini (Catholic Church), Swaziland Reformed Church (World Communion of Reformed Churches), and Zion Christian Church.
1	City	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	residents	resident	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	follow	follow	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	multiple	multiple	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	faiths	faith	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	predominantly	predominantly	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	Christian	Christian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	churches	church	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
12	Roman	roman	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
13	Catholic	catholic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	Diocese	diocese	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Manzini	Manzini	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
17	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	Catholic	Catholic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	Church	Church	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	Swaziland	Swaziland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
23	Reformed	Reformed	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	Church	Church	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	appos	_	_
25	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	World	World	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	Communion	Communion	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	appos	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	Reformed	reform	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	30	amod	_	_
30	Churches	church	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
34	Zion	Zion	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	compound	_	_
35	Christian	Christian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	compound	_	_
36	Church	Church	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **follow** | present | City residents | multiple faiths |  |  |  | with Christian churches and Roman Catholic Diocese of Manzini; Zion Christian Church *parataxis* | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent faith=Theme |
| 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, «Mbabane», 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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