--- title: Ancestral worship is the most practised non-Christian religion, invo… — Zimbabwe · tree and pragmatics description: Ancestral worship is the most practised non-Christian religion, involving spiritual intercession. Who acts: Ancestral worship, practised non-Christian religion. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Zimbabwe» with its dependency tree and pragmatics. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Zimbabwe/449/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [wikipedia](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/) / [en](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/) / [Zimbabwe](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Zimbabwe/) / 449 # Zimbabwe, sentence 449 From Wikipedia, [«Zimbabwe»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zimbabwe), 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. Ancestral worship is the most practised non-Christian religion, involving spiritual intercession. **Who acts:** Ancestral worship, practised non-Christian religion · **What happens:** practise, be, involve · **To what, where:** practised non-Christian religion, spiritual intercession This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Zimbabwe». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ancestral worship, practised non-Christian religion), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:Zimbabwe:449 # text = Ancestral worship is the most practised non-Christian religion, involving spiritual intercession. 1 Ancestral ancestral ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 worship worship NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 5 most most ADV RBS Degree=Sup 6 advmod _ _ 6 practised practise VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 amod _ _ 7 non-Christian non-christian ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 religion religion NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 10 involving involve VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 8 acl _ _ 11 spiritual spiritual ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 intercession intercession NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 13 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **practise** | participle | | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **is a** | present | Ancestral worship | the practised non-Christian religion | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **involve** | gerund | the practised non-Christian religion *not said here* | spiritual intercession | | | | | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent intercession=Theme | 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. **Text:** the English Wikipedia, «Zimbabwe», 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. - ← previous: [sentence 448](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Zimbabwe/448/) - next →: [sentence 450](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Zimbabwe/450/) - ↑ back to [Zimbabwe](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Zimbabwe/)