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title: Television broadcasts began in Wellington on 1 July 1961 with the la… — Wellington · tree and pragmatics
description: Television broadcasts began in Wellington on 1 July 1961 with the launch of channel WNTV1, becoming the third New Zealand city (after Auckland and Christchurch) to receive regular television broadcasts. Who acts: Television broadcasts. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Wellington» with its dependency tree 
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# Wellington, sentence 439

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From Wikipedia, [«Wellington»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wellington), 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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Television broadcasts began in Wellington on 1 July 1961 with the launch of channel WNTV1, becoming the third New Zealand city (after Auckland and Christchurch) to receive regular television broadcasts.

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**Who acts:** Television broadcasts · **What happens:** begin, become, receive · **To what, where:** Wellington, third Zealand city, regular television broadcasts

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Wellington». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Television broadcasts), 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:Wellington:439
# text = Television broadcasts began in Wellington on 1 July 1961 with the launch of channel WNTV1, becoming the third New Zealand city (after Auckland and Christchurch) to receive regular television broadcasts.
1	Television	television	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	broadcasts	broadcast	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Wellington	Wellington	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	1	1	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	obl	_	_
8	July	July	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod:unmarked	_	_
9	1961	1961	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	flat	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	launch	launch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	channel	channel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
15	WNTV1	WNTV1	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	becoming	become	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
19	third	third	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	22	amod	_	_
20	New	New	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	flat	_	_
21	Zealand	Zealand	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	xcomp	_	_
23	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	after	after	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	Auckland	Auckland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	appos	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	Christchurch	Christchurch	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	25	punct	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
30	receive	receive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	xcomp	_	_
31	regular	regular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
32	television	television	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
33	broadcasts	broadcast	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **begin** | past | Television broadcasts |  |  | Wellington |  | on 1; with the launch of channel | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with launch=Subeventuality |
| 2 | **become** | gerund | Television broadcasts *not said here* | the third Zealand city |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **receive** | to-infinitive | Television broadcasts *not said here* | regular television broadcasts |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent broadcast=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, «Wellington», 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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