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title: However, church attendance has greatly decreased in recent years; on… — Poland · tree and pragmatics
description: However, church attendance has greatly decreased in recent years; only 28% of Catholics attended mass weekly in 2021, down from around half in 2000. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Poland» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Poland, sentence 408

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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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However, church attendance has greatly decreased in recent years; only 28% of Catholics attended mass weekly in 2021, down from around half in 2000.

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**What happens:** decrease, attend · **To what, where:** church attendance, mass, 2021

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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: 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:408
# text = However, church attendance has greatly decreased in recent years; only 28% of Catholics attended mass weekly in 2021, down from around half in 2000.
1	However	however	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	church	church	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	attendance	attendance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	greatly	greatly	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	decreased	decrease	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	recent	recent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
12	only	only	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	28	28	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	%	%	SYM	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Catholics	Catholic	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	_
17	attended	attend	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
18	mass	mass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
19	weekly	weekly	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	2021	2021	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	down	down	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
24	from	from	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	around	around	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	23	obl	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	2000	2000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **decrease** | present · perfect · passive |  | church attendance |  |  | year | greatly, however *property* | vn caused\_calibratable\_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **attend** | past |  | mass |  | 2021 |  | in 2000; down, weekly *property* | vn attend-107.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mass=Goal |

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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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