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title: Cable television and IPTV networks are gaining ground. — Croatia · tree and pragmatics
description: Cable television and IPTV networks are gaining ground. Who acts: you, IPTV networks. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Croatia» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Croatia, sentence 491

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From Wikipedia, [«Croatia»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Croatia), 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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Cable television and IPTV networks are gaining ground.

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**Who acts:** you, IPTV networks · **What happens:** cable, gain · **To what, where:** television, ground

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Croatia». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, IPTV networks), 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:Croatia:491
# text = Cable television and IPTV networks are gaining ground.
1	Cable	cable	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	television	television	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
4	IPTV	iptv	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	networks	network	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
6	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	gaining	gain	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	conj	_	_
8	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cable** | imperative | you *not said here* | television |  |  |  |  | vn instr\_communication-37.4.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent television=Topic |
| 2 | **gain** | present · progressive | IPTV networks | ground |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ground=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, «Croatia», 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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