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title: Protestantism was spread by Canadian and American missionaries in th… — Vietnam · tree and pragmatics
description: Protestantism was spread by Canadian and American missionaries in the 20th century; the largest Protestant denomination is the Evangelical Church of Vietnam. Who acts: Canadian missionaries, largest Protestant denomination. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Vietnam» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Vietnam, sentence 518

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From Wikipedia, [«Vietnam»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam), 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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Protestantism was spread by Canadian and American missionaries in the 20th century; the largest Protestant denomination is the Evangelical Church of Vietnam.

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**Who acts:** Canadian missionaries, largest Protestant denomination · **What happens:** spread, be · **To what, where:** Protestantism, Evangelical Church

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Vietnam». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Canadian missionaries, largest Protestant denomination), 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:Vietnam:518
# text = Protestantism was spread by Canadian and American missionaries in the 20th century; the largest Protestant denomination is the Evangelical Church of Vietnam.
1	Protestantism	protestantism	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	spread	spread	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	by	by	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	Canadian	Canadian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	American	American	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
8	missionaries	missionary	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	20th	20th	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Ord	12	amod	_	_
12	century	century	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
15	largest	large	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	17	amod	_	_
16	Protestant	protestant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	denomination	denomination	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
18	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	Evangelical	Evangelical	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	Church	Church	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	Vietnam	Vietnam	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **spread** | past · passive | Canadian missionaries in the 20th century | Protestantism |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location subject=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | present | the largest Protestant denomination | the Evangelical Church |  |  |  | of Vietnam | 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, «Vietnam», 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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