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title: Per the 2022 census, Muslims accounted for 1.6% of the population, H… — South Africa · tree and pragmatics
description: Per the 2022 census, Muslims accounted for 1.6% of the population, Hindus 1.1%, traditional African religions 7.8%, 3.1% had no religious affiliation, and 1.1% were "other". A sentence of Wikipedia's «South Africa» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# South Africa, sentence 438

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From Wikipedia, [«South Africa»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Africa), 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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Per the 2022 census, Muslims accounted for 1.6% of the population, Hindus 1.1%, traditional African religions 7.8%, 3.1% had no religious affiliation, and 1.1% were "other".

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**What happens:** account, have, be · **To what, where:** Muslims, religious affiliation · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «South Africa». 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:South_Africa:438
# text = Per the 2022 census, Muslims accounted for 1.6% of the population, Hindus 1.1%, traditional African religions 7.8%, 3.1% had no religious affiliation, and 1.1% were "other".
1	Per	per	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	2022	2022	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	census	census	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	Muslims	Muslim	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	4	appos	_	_
7	accounted	account	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	1.6	1.6	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	%	%	SYM	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	population	population	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	Hindus	Hindu	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	17	nmod:poss	_	_
16	1.1	1.1	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Frac	15	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	%	%	SYM	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	traditional	traditional	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
20	African	African	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	religions	religion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	conj	_	_
22	7.8	7.8	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	23	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	%	%	SYM	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	3.1	3.1	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	26	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	%	%	SYM	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
27	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	appos	_	_
28	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	30	det	_	_
29	religious	religious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	affiliation	affiliation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
33	1.1	1.1	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	34	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	%	%	SYM	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl:unmarked	_	_
35	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	cop	_	_
36	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	37	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	37	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **account** | participle |  | Muslims *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** | past |  | no religious affiliation |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** *in a quote* | past |  |  |  |  |  | other *property* | tree rules |

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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, «South Africa», 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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