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title: In 2002, there were 42 TV channels under two cable operators. — Thimphu · tree and pragmatics
description: In 2002, there were 42 TV channels under two cable operators. Who acts: 42 TV channels. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Thimphu» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Thimphu, sentence 486

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From Wikipedia, [«Thimphu»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thimphu), 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 2002, there were 42 TV channels under two cable operators.

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**Who acts:** 42 TV channels · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** 2002

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Thimphu». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (42 TV channels), 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:Thimphu:486
# text = In 2002, there were 42 TV channels under two cable operators.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	2002	2002	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	5	expl	_	_
5	were	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	42	42	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
7	TV	TV	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	channels	channel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
9	under	under	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
11	cable	cable	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	operators	operator	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | 42 TV channels under two cable operators |  |  | 2002; there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in 2002=Location |

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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, «Thimphu», 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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