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title: South African Muslims describe their faith as the fastest-growing re… — South Africa · tree and pragmatics
description: South African Muslims describe their faith as the fastest-growing religion of conversion in the country, with the number of black Muslims growing sixfold, from 12,000 in 1991 to 74,700 in 2004. Who acts: African Muslims, black Muslims. A sentence of Wikipedia's «South Africa» with its dependency tre
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# South Africa, sentence 446

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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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South African Muslims describe their faith as the fastest-growing religion of conversion in the country, with the number of black Muslims growing sixfold, from 12,000 in 1991 to 74,700 in 2004.

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**Who acts:** African Muslims, black Muslims · **What happens:** describe, grow · **To what, where:** faith, country, sixfold

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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: who acts (African Muslims, black Muslims), 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:446
# text = South African Muslims describe their faith as the fastest-growing religion of conversion in the country, with the number of black Muslims growing sixfold, from 12,000 in 1991 to 74,700 in 2004.
1	South	south	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	African	African	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Muslims	Muslim	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	describe	describe	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	faith	faith	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	as	as	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
9	fastest	fast	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	growing	grow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	amod	_	_
12	religion	religion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	conversion	conversion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	Muslims	Muslim	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	21	nmod	_	_
25	growing	grow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	24	acl	_	_
26	sixfold	sixfold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	from	from	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	12,000	12,000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	obl	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	1991	1991	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	29	nmod	_	_
32	to	to	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	74,700	74,700	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	29	nmod	_	_
34	in	in	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	2004	2004	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	33	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **describe** | present | African Muslims | Muslims's faith |  | the country |  | as the growing religion of conversion; with the number of black Muslims; from 12,000 in 1991 to 74,700 in 2004 | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent faith=Theme as religion=Attribute |
| 2 | **grow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **grow** | gerund | black Muslims *not said here* | sixfold |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location sixfold=Theme |

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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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