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title: The government fostered trade by settling a sizeable Jewish colony o… — Albania · tree and pragmatics
description: The government fostered trade by settling a sizeable Jewish colony of refugees fleeing persecution in Spain. Who acts: government, refugees. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Albania» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Albania, sentence 107

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From Wikipedia, [«Albania»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albania), 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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The government fostered trade by settling a sizeable Jewish colony of refugees fleeing persecution in Spain.

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**Who acts:** government, refugees · **What happens:** foster, settle, flee · **To what, where:** trade, sizeable Jewish colony, persecution, Spain

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Albania». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (government, refugees), 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:Albania:107
# text = The government fostered trade by settling a sizeable Jewish colony of refugees fleeing persecution in Spain.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	fostered	foster	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	trade	trade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
6	settling	settle	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	sizeable	sizeable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	Jewish	Jewish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	colony	colony	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	refugees	refugee	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	_
13	fleeing	flee	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	acl	_	_
14	persecution	persecution	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Spain	Spain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **foster** | past | the government | trade |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **settle** | gerund | the government *not said here* | a sizeable Jewish colony of refugees |  |  |  |  | vn odge-46-1 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme colony=Location |
| 3 | **flee** | gerund | refugees *not said here* | persecution |  | Spain |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme persecution=Initial\_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, «Albania», 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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