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title: According to the 2021 census, ethnic Poles comprise 98.84% of the po… — Poland · tree and pragmatics
description: According to the 2021 census, ethnic Poles comprise 98.84% of the population, including people who declared Polish heritage alone (96.28%) or both Polish and another ethnicity (2.56%) as responders were allowed to select up to two ethnicities. Who acts: ethnic Poles, people, responders. A sentence o
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# Poland, sentence 396

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From Wikipedia, [«Poland»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poland), 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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According to the 2021 census, ethnic Poles comprise 98.84% of the population, including people who declared Polish heritage alone (96.28%) or both Polish and another ethnicity (2.56%) as responders were allowed to select up to two ethnicities.

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**Who acts:** ethnic Poles, people, responders · **What happens:** accord, comprise, declare, allow, select up · **To what, where:** Polish heritage, responders

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Poland». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ethnic Poles, people, responders), 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:Poland:396
# text = According to the 2021 census, ethnic Poles comprise 98.84% of the population, including people who declared Polish heritage alone (96.28%) or both Polish and another ethnicity (2.56%) as responders were allowed to select up to two ethnicities.
1	According	accord	VERB	VBG	ExtPos=ADP|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	case	_	_
2	to	to	ADP	IN	_	1	fixed	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	2021	2021	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	census	census	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	ethnic	ethnic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	Poles	pole	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
9	comprise	comprise	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	98.84	98.84	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	%	%	SYM	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	population	population	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	including	including	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
18	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
19	declared	declare	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	acl:relcl	_	_
20	Polish	polish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	heritage	heritage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
23	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	96.28	96.28	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	25	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	%	%	SYM	NN	Number=Sing	21	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	25	punct	_	_
27	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
28	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	29	advmod	_	_
29	Polish	polish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	conj	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
31	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	32	det	_	_
32	ethnicity	ethnicity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
33	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	35	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	2.56	2.56	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	35	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	%	%	SYM	NN	Number=Sing	32	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	35	punct	_	_
37	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	40	mark	_	_
38	responders	responder	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	nsubj:pass	_	_
39	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	40	aux:pass	_	_
40	allowed	allow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	advcl	_	_
41	to	to	PART	TO	_	42	mark	_	_
42	select	select	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	40	xcomp	_	_
43	up	up	ADP	RP	_	42	compound:prt	_	_
44	to	to	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	46	nummod	_	_
46	ethnicities	ethnicity	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	42	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **accord** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **comprise** | present | ethnic Poles |  |  |  |  | accord the 2021 census; including people | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme %=Pivot |
| 3 | **declare** *speech: other* | past | people | Polish heritage |  |  |  | another ethnicity *conj* | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heritage=Attribute |
| 4 | **allow** | past · passive |  | responders |  |  |  |  | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality |
| 5 | **select up** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | responders *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to two ethnicities | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent to ethnicity=be' |

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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, «Poland», 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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