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title: However, according to the Association of Religion Data Archives (ARD… — Tanzania · tree and pragmatics
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# Tanzania, sentence 497

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From Wikipedia, [«Tanzania»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanzania), 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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However, according to the Association of Religion Data Archives (ARDA), 55.3% of the population is Christian, 31.5% is Muslim, 11.3% practices traditional faiths, while 1.9% of the population is non-religious or adheres to other faiths as of 2020.

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**What happens:** accord, be, practice, adhere · **To what, where:** traditional faiths

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Tanzania». 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:Tanzania:497
# text = However, according to the Association of Religion Data Archives (ARDA), 55.3% of the population is Christian, 31.5% is Muslim, 11.3% practices traditional faiths, while 1.9% of the population is non-religious or adheres to other faiths as of 2020.
1	However	however	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	according	accord	VERB	VBG	ExtPos=ADP|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	case	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	3	fixed	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Association	Association	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	Religion	Religion	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
9	Data	Data	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	Archives	Archive	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
11	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	ARDA	ARDA	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
15	55.3	55.3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	%	%	SYM	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	population	population	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
20	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
21	Christian	Christian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	31.5	31.5	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	24	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	%	%	SYM	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
25	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
26	Muslim	Muslim	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
28	11.3	11.3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	29	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	%	%	SYM	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
30	practices	practice	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	_
31	traditional	traditional	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	faiths	faith	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
34	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	41	mark	_	_
35	1.9	1.9	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	36	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	%	%	SYM	NN	Number=Sing	41	nsubj	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	population	population	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nmod	_	_
40	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	41	cop	_	_
41	non-religious	non-religious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	parataxis	_	_
42	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
43	adheres	adhere	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	41	conj	_	_
44	to	to	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	46	amod	_	_
46	faiths	faith	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	43	obl	_	_
47	as	as	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	49	case	_	_
48	of	of	ADP	IN	_	47	fixed	_	_
49	2020	2020	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	43	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **accord** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | accord the Association and Religion Data Archives; christian, however *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | muslim *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **practice** | present |  | traditional faiths |  |  |  |  | vn rehearse-26.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent faith=Theme |
| 5 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | non-religious *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **adhere** | present |  |  |  |  |  | to other faiths; as 2020 | vn cling-22.5 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to faith=Co-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, «Tanzania», 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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