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title: The only television station is the state-owned Télé Tchad. — Chad · tree and pragmatics
description: The only television station is the state-owned Télé Tchad. Who acts: only television station. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Chad» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Chad, sentence 322

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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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The only television station is the state-owned Télé Tchad.

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**Who acts:** only television station · **What happens:** own, be · **To what, where:** owned Télé

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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 (only television station), 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:322
# text = The only television station is the state-owned Télé Tchad.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	only	only	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	television	television	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	station	station	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
7	state	state	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	owned	own	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	amod	_	_
10	Télé	Télé	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
11	Tchad	Tchad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **own** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | state *compound* | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot |
| 2 | **is a** | present | the only television station | the owned Télé |  |  |  |  | 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, «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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