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title: In 966, the ruler of the Polans, Mieszko I, accepted Western Christi… — Poland · tree and pragmatics
description: In 966, the ruler of the Polans, Mieszko I, accepted Western Christianity under the auspices of the Roman Catholic Church which was tantamount to the adoption of Christianity by Poland. Who acts: Mieszko, Roman Catholic Church. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Poland» with its dependency tree and pragmati
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# Poland, sentence 41

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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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In 966, the ruler of the Polans, Mieszko I, accepted Western Christianity under the auspices of the Roman Catholic Church which was tantamount to the adoption of Christianity by Poland.

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**Who acts:** Mieszko, Roman Catholic Church · **What happens:** accept, be, adopt · **To what, where:** Western Christianity, 966, tantamount, Christianity

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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 (Mieszko, Roman Catholic Church), 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:41
# text = In 966, the ruler of the Polans, Mieszko I, accepted Western Christianity under the auspices of the Roman Catholic Church which was tantamount to the adoption of Christianity by Poland.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	966	966	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	ruler	ruler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Polans	Polan	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
10	Mieszko	Mieszko	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
11	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
13	accepted	accept	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	Western	Western	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	Christianity	Christianity	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	under	under	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	auspices	auspices	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
21	Roman	roman	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
22	Catholic	Catholic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	Church	Church	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
24	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	26	nsubj	_	_
25	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
26	tantamount	tantamount	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	list	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	adoption	adoption	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	Christianity	Christianity	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	_
32	by	by	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	Poland	Poland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **accept** | past | Mieszko | Western Christianity |  | 966 |  | under the auspices of the Roman Catholic Church | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent christianity=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | past | the Roman Catholic Church | tantamount |  |  |  | to the adoption of Christianity by Poland | tree rules |
| 3 | **adopt** |  |  | Christianity by Poland |  |  |  |  | nom adoption «act transitive»: of=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, «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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