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title: There are two daily national newspapers published in the Comoros, th… — Comoros · tree and pragmatics
description: There are two daily national newspapers published in the Comoros, the government-owned Al-Watwan, and the privately owned La Gazette des Comores, both published in Moroni. Who acts: two daily national newspapers, La, Comores. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Comoros» with its dependency tree and pragmatic
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# Comoros, sentence 296

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From Wikipedia, [«Comoros»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comoros), 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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There are two daily national newspapers published in the Comoros, the government-owned Al-Watwan, and the privately owned La Gazette des Comores, both published in Moroni.

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**Who acts:** two daily national newspapers, La, Comores · **What happens:** be, publish, own, de · **To what, where:** two daily national newspapers, Comores, both, Moroni

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Comoros». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two daily national newspapers, La, Comores), 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:Comoros:296
# text = There are two daily national newspapers published in the Comoros, the government-owned Al-Watwan, and the privately owned La Gazette des Comores, both published in Moroni.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	are	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
4	daily	daily	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	national	national	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	newspapers	newspaper	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
7	published	publish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Comoros	Comoros	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl:agent	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
13	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	owned	own	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	amod	_	_
16	Al	Al	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	Watwan	Watwan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	privately	privately	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	owned	own	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
24	La	La	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
25	Gazette	Gazette	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	flat	_	_
26	des	de	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	ccomp	_	_
27	Comores	comore	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	30	nsubj:pass	_	_
30	published	publish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	acl	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	Moroni	Moroni	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **does** | present | two daily national newspapers |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **publish** | participle |  | two daily national newspapers *not said here* |  |  |  | the Comoros *obl:agent* | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **own** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | government *compound* | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot |
| 4 | **own** | past |  |  |  |  |  | privately *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **de** | present | La | Comores |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **publish** | participle · passive | Comores *not said here* | both |  | Moroni |  |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Result |

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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, «Comoros», 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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