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title: Christians form the majority of the city's population; most of whom… — Moscow · tree and pragmatics
description: Christians form the majority of the city's population; most of whom adhere Russian Orthodox Church. Who acts: Christians, most. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Moscow» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Moscow, sentence 268

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From Wikipedia, [«Moscow»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscow), 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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Christians form the majority of the city's population; most of whom adhere Russian Orthodox Church.

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**Who acts:** Christians, most · **What happens:** form, adhere · **To what, where:** majority, Russian Orthodox Church

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Moscow». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Christians, most), 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:Moscow:268
# text = Christians form the majority of the city's population; most of whom adhere Russian Orthodox Church.
1	Christians	Christian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	form	form	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	majority	majority	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	's	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	population	population	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
11	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	14	nsubj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	11	nmod	_	_
14	adhere	adhere	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
15	Russian	Russian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
16	Orthodox	Orthodox	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	Church	Church	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **form** | present | Christians | the majority of the city's population |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location majority=Theme |
| 2 | **adhere** | present | most | Russian Orthodox Church |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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, «Moscow», 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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