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title: Of the Christian population, Catholicism was the most widely declare… — Ottawa · tree and pragmatics
description: Of the Christian population, Catholicism was the most widely declared with 303,820 adherents, with the next largest specified group being Anglican with 41,175 adherents. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Ottawa» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Ottawa, sentence 234

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From Wikipedia, [«Ottawa»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottawa), 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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Of the Christian population, Catholicism was the most widely declared with 303,820 adherents, with the next largest specified group being Anglican with 41,175 adherents.

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**What happens:** declare, specify, be · **To what, where:** Catholicism

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Ottawa». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:Ottawa:234
# text = Of the Christian population, Catholicism was the most widely declared with 303,820 adherents, with the next largest specified group being Anglican with 41,175 adherents.
1	Of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	Christian	Christian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	population	population	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	Catholicism	Catholicism	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux:pass	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	10	advmod	_	_
10	widely	widely	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	declared	declare	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	303,820	303,820	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
14	adherents	adherent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
18	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
19	largest	large	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	21	amod	_	_
20	specified	specify	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	amod	_	_
21	group	group	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
22	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	23	cop	_	_
23	Anglican	anglican	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	appos	_	_
24	with	with	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	41,175	41,175	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	26	nummod	_	_
26	adherents	adherent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **declare** *speech: other* | past · passive |  | Catholicism |  |  |  | of the Christian population; with 303,820 adherents; with the next largest specified group; widely *property* | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Attribute |
| 2 | **specify** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | with 41,175 adherents; anglican *property* | 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, «Ottawa», 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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