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title: In 2013, the Ministry for Posts and Information & Communication Tech… — Chad · tree and pragmatics
description: In 2013, the Ministry for Posts and Information & Communication Technologies announced that the country would be seeking a partner for fibre optic technology. Who acts: Ministry, country. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Chad» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Chad, sentence 301

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From Wikipedia, [«Chad»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chad), 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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In 2013, the Ministry for Posts and Information & Communication Technologies announced that the country would be seeking a partner for fibre optic technology.

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**Who acts:** Ministry, country · **What happens:** announce, seek · **To what, where:** 2013, partner · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Chad». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ministry, country), 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:Chad:301
# text = In 2013, the Ministry for Posts and Information & Communication Technologies announced that the country would be seeking a partner for fibre optic technology.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	2013	2013	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Ministry	Ministry	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Posts	post	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	Information	Information	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
10	&	&	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	Communication	Communication	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
12	Technologies	Technology	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
13	announced	announce	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
17	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
18	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	aux	_	_
19	seeking	seek	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	ccomp	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	partner	partner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	for	for	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	fibre	fibre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
24	optic	optic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	technology	technology	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **announce** *speech: other* | past | the Ministry for Posts |  |  | 2013 |  | Information Technologies *nsubj* | vn order-58.3 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **seek** | would · progressive | the country | a partner |  |  |  | for fibre optic technology | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent partner=Location for technology=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, «Chad», 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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