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title: There are some 1,000 Catholics, and in 2003 a missionary from the Ph… — Mongolia · tree and pragmatics
description: There are some 1,000 Catholics, and in 2003 a missionary from the Philippines was named Mongolia's first Catholic bishop. Who acts: 1,000 Catholics. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Mongolia» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Mongolia, sentence 342

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From Wikipedia, [«Mongolia»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mongolia), 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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There are some 1,000 Catholics, and in 2003 a missionary from the Philippines was named Mongolia's first Catholic bishop.

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**Who acts:** 1,000 Catholics · **What happens:** be, name · **To what, where:** missionary, 2003

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Mongolia». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (1,000 Catholics), 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:Mongolia:342
# text = There are some 1,000 Catholics, and in 2003 a missionary from the Philippines was named Mongolia's first Catholic bishop.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	are	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	5	det	_	_
4	1,000	1000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	Catholics	Catholic	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	2003	2003	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	16	obl	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	missionary	missionary	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	from	from	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	Philippines	Philippines	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Ptan	11	nmod	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	named	name	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
17	Mongolia	Mongolia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	's	's	PART	POS	_	17	case	_	_
19	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	21	amod	_	_
20	Catholic	catholic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	bishop	bishop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **does** | present | some 1,000 Catholics |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **name** | past · passive | some 1,000 Catholics *not said here* | a missionary from the Philippines |  | 2003 |  | Mongolia's first Catholic bishop *xcomp* | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |

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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, «Mongolia», 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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