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title: The league used military force to prevent the annexing areas of Plav… — Albania · tree and pragmatics
description: The league used military force to prevent the annexing areas of Plav and Gusinje assigned to Montenegro. Who acts: league, annexing areas. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Albania» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Albania, sentence 130

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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 league used military force to prevent the annexing areas of Plav and Gusinje assigned to Montenegro.

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**Who acts:** league, annexing areas · **What happens:** use, prevent, annex, assign · **To what, where:** military force, Montenegro

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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 (league, annexing areas), 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:130
# text = The league used military force to prevent the annexing areas of Plav and Gusinje assigned to Montenegro.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	league	league	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	used	use	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	military	military	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	force	force	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	prevent	prevent	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	annexing	annex	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	amod	_	_
10	areas	area	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Plav	Plav	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	Gusinje	Gusinje	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
15	assigned	assign	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	ccomp	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	Montenegro	Montenegro	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **use** | past | the league | military force |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent force=Patient |
| 2 | **prevent** | to-infinitive | the league *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Causer clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **annex** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **assign** | past | the annexing areas of Plav and Gusinje |  | Montenegro |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent to montenegro=Goal |

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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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