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title: As in other countries in sub-Saharan Africa, Christianity is often b… — South Sudan · tree and pragmatics
description: As in other countries in sub-Saharan Africa, Christianity is often blended with traditional beliefs. A sentence of Wikipedia's «South Sudan» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# South Sudan, sentence 373

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From Wikipedia, [«South Sudan»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Sudan), 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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As in other countries in sub-Saharan Africa, Christianity is often blended with traditional beliefs.

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**What happens:** blend · **To what, where:** Christianity

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «South Sudan». 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_Sudan:373
# text = As in other countries in sub-Saharan Africa, Christianity is often blended with traditional beliefs.
1	As	as	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	countries	country	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	sub-Saharan	sub-Saharan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	Africa	Africa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
9	Christianity	Christianity	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux:pass	_	_
11	often	often	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	blended	blend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	traditional	traditional	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	beliefs	belief	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **blend** | present · passive |  | Christianity |  |  |  | as other countries in sub-Saharan Africa; with traditional beliefs; often *property* | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient with belief=Co-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, «South Sudan», 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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