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title: While the majority of Palestinians practice Islam, Christianity also… — Palestine · tree and pragmatics
description: While the majority of Palestinians practice Islam, Christianity also has a presence. Who acts: majority, Christianity. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Palestine» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Palestine, sentence 28

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From Wikipedia, [«Palestine»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestine), 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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While the majority of Palestinians practice Islam, Christianity also has a presence.

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**Who acts:** majority, Christianity · **What happens:** practice, have · **To what, where:** Islam, presence

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Palestine». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (majority, Christianity), 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:Palestine:28
# text = While the majority of Palestinians practice Islam, Christianity also has a presence.
1	While	while	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	majority	majority	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Palestinians	Palestinian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
6	practice	practice	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
7	Islam	Islam	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
9	Christianity	Christianity	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
10	also	also	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	presence	presence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **practice** | present | the majority of Palestinians | Islam |  |  |  |  | vn rehearse-26.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent islam=Theme |
| 2 | **have** | present | Christianity | a presence |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent presence=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, «Palestine», 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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