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title: Canadian mass media, both print and digital, and in both official la… — Canada · tree and pragmatics
description: Canadian mass media, both print and digital, and in both official languages, is largely dominated by a "handful of corporations". Who acts: handful. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Canada» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Canada, sentence 409

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From Wikipedia, [«Canada»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada), 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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Canadian mass media, both print and digital, and in both official languages, is largely dominated by a "handful of corporations".

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**Who acts:** handful · **What happens:** dominate · **To what, where:** print

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Canada». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (handful), 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:Canada:409
# text = Canadian mass media, both print and digital, and in both official languages, is largely dominated by a "handful of corporations".
1	Canadian	Canadian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	mass	mass	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	media	media	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	det	_	_
6	print	print	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	digital	digital	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	14	det	_	_
13	official	official	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	languages	language	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux:pass	_	_
17	largely	largely	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	dominated	dominate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
19	by	by	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	handful	handful	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl:agent	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	corporations	corporation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dominate** | present · passive | a handful of corporations | both print  Canadian mass media and both official languages *not said here* |  |  |  | largely *property* | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-2 «NP V»: agent=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, «Canada», 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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