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title: It became a satellite television in 1996. — Yerevan · tree and pragmatics
description: It became a satellite television in 1996. Who acts: TV. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Yerevan» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Yerevan, sentence 479

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From Wikipedia, [«Yerevan»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yerevan), 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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It became a satellite television in 1996.

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**Who acts:** TV · **What happens:** become · **To what, where:** satellite television, 1996

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Yerevan». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (TV), 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:Yerevan:479
# text = It became a satellite television in 1996.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	satellite	satellite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	television	television	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	xcomp	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	1996	1996	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **become** | past | TV | a satellite television |  |  |  | in 1996 *result* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in 1996=Result |

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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, «Yerevan», 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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