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title: Chorus, which was split from Telecom (now Spark) in 2011, still owns… — New Zealand · tree and pragmatics
description: Chorus, which was split from Telecom (now Spark) in 2011, still owns the majority of the telecommunications infrastructure, but competition from other providers has increased. A sentence of Wikipedia's «New Zealand» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# New Zealand, sentence 278

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From Wikipedia, [«New Zealand»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Zealand), 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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Chorus, which was split from Telecom (now Spark) in 2011, still owns the majority of the telecommunications infrastructure, but competition from other providers has increased.

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**What happens:** split, own, increase · **To what, where:** Chorus, majority, competition

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «New Zealand». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:New_Zealand:278
# text = Chorus, which was split from Telecom (now Spark) in 2011, still owns the majority of the telecommunications infrastructure, but competition from other providers has increased.
1	Chorus	chorus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	split	split	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Telecom	Telecom	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
8	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	10	advmod	_	_
10	Spark	Spark	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	10	punct	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	2011	2011	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	still	still	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	owns	own	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	majority	majority	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	telecommunications	telecommunication	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	compound	_	_
22	infrastructure	infrastructure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
24	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
25	competition	competition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj:pass	_	_
26	from	from	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	providers	provider	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nmod	_	_
29	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	increased	increase	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **split** | past · passive |  | Chorus |  |  |  | in 2011; from Telecom; which *nsubj:pass* | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient from telecom=Co-Patient |
| 2 | **own** | present |  | the majority of the telecommunications infrastructure |  |  | still |  | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot majority=Theme |
| 3 | **increase** | present · perfect · passive |  | competition from other providers |  |  |  |  | vn caused\_calibratable\_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient |

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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, «New Zealand», 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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