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title: Currently 98% of the population identify themselves as Christian. — Samoa · tree and pragmatics
description: Currently 98% of the population identify themselves as Christian. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Samoa» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Samoa, sentence 313

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From Wikipedia, [«Samoa»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samoa), 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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Currently 98% of the population identify themselves as Christian.

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**What happens:** identify · **To what, where:** people

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Samoa». 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:Samoa:313
# text = Currently 98% of the population identify themselves as Christian.
1	Currently	currently	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	98	98	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	%	%	SYM	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	population	population	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	identify	identify	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	7	obj	_	_
9	as	as	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Christian	Christian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **identify** | present |  | people |  |  |  | as Christian | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent themselves=Theme as christian=Attribute |

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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, «Samoa», 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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