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title: In 2007, some 245 newspapers and magazines (compared to only 91 in 1… — Tunisia · tree and pragmatics
description: In 2007, some 245 newspapers and magazines (compared to only 91 in 1987) are 90% owned by private groups and independents. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Tunisia» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Tunisia, sentence 434

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From Wikipedia, [«Tunisia»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunisia), 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 2007, some 245 newspapers and magazines (compared to only 91 in 1987) are 90% owned by private groups and independents.

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**What happens:** compare, own · **To what, where:** magazines

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Tunisia». 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:Tunisia:434
# text = In 2007, some 245 newspapers and magazines (compared to only 91 in 1987) are 90% owned by private groups and independents.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	2007	2007	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	6	det	_	_
5	245	245	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	newspapers	newspaper	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	magazines	magazine	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
9	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	compared	compare	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	only	only	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	91	91	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	obl	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	1987	1987	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	10	punct	_	_
17	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
18	90	90	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	19	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	%	%	SYM	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
20	owned	own	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	acl	_	_
21	by	by	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	private	private	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	groups	group	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	independents	independent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **compare** | participle |  | magazines *not said here* |  |  |  | to 91 in 1987 | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **own** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | by private groups and independents | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot |

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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, «Tunisia», 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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