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title: The major radio and television stations are state-run and other comm… — Cameroon · tree and pragmatics
description: The major radio and television stations are state-run and other communications, such as land-based telephones and telegraphs, are largely under government control. Who acts: major radio. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Cameroon» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Cameroon, sentence 398

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From Wikipedia, [«Cameroon»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cameroon), 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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The major radio and television stations are state-run and other communications, such as land-based telephones and telegraphs, are largely under government control.

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**Who acts:** major radio · **What happens:** be, base · **To what, where:** state run, government control

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Cameroon». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (major radio), 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:Cameroon:398
# text = The major radio and television stations are state-run and other communications, such as land-based telephones and telegraphs, are largely under government control.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	major	major	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	radio	radio	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	television	television	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	stations	station	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
7	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
8	state	state	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	run	run	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	parataxis	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	communications	communication	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
15	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	20	case	_	_
16	as	as	ADP	IN	_	15	fixed	_	_
17	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	based	base	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	amod	_	_
20	telephones	telephone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	telegraphs	telegraph	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
24	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
25	largely	largely	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
26	under	under	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	control	control	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	28	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the major radio and television stations | state run and other communications such based telephones and telegraphs |  |  |  | other communications such based telephones and telegraphs *conj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **base** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | land *compound* | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | present |  |  |  | government control |  | largely *property* | 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, «Cameroon», 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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