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title: In 1980, Televisions One and Two merged under a single company, Tele… — Wellington · tree and pragmatics
description: In 1980, Televisions One and Two merged under a single company, Television New Zealand (TVNZ). A sentence of Wikipedia's «Wellington» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Wellington, sentence 445

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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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In 1980, Televisions One and Two merged under a single company, Television New Zealand (TVNZ).

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**What happens:** merge · **To what, where:** single company, 1980

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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: 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:445
# text = In 1980, Televisions One and Two merged under a single company, Television New Zealand (TVNZ).
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	1980	1980	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	Televisions	television	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
5	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nmod	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	Two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	conj	_	_
8	merged	merge	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	_
9	under	under	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	single	single	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	company	company	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	Television	Television	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
15	New	New	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	flat	_	_
16	Zealand	Zealand	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	appos	_	_
17	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	TVNZ	TVNZ	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **merge** | participle |  |  |  | a single company |  |  | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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, «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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