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title: This led to political uncertainty, highlighted in 1918 when the Cong… — Albania · tree and pragmatics
description: This led to political uncertainty, highlighted in 1918 when the Congress of Durrës sought Paris Peace Conference protection but was denied, further complicating Albania's position on the international stage. Who acts: This, Congress. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Albania» with its dependency tree and p
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# Albania, sentence 154

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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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This led to political uncertainty, highlighted in 1918 when the Congress of Durrës sought Paris Peace Conference protection but was denied, further complicating Albania's position on the international stage.

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**Who acts:** This, Congress · **What happens:** lead, highlight, seek, deny, complicate · **To what, where:** 1918, political uncertainty, Paris Conference protection, position, international stage

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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 (This, Congress), 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:154
# text = This led to political uncertainty, highlighted in 1918 when the Congress of Durrës sought Paris Peace Conference protection but was denied, further complicating Albania's position on the international stage.
1	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	nsubj	_	_
2	led	lead	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	political	political	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	uncertainty	uncertainty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	highlighted	highlight	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	1918	1918	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	obl	_	_
10	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	15	advmod	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	Congress	Congress	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Durrës	Durrës	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
15	sought	seek	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
16	Paris	Paris	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
17	Peace	Peace	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	Conference	Conference	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	protection	protection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
20	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux:pass	_	_
22	denied	deny	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	further	further	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	complicating	complicate	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	advcl	_	_
26	Albania	Albania	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	's	's	PART	POS	_	26	case	_	_
28	position	position	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
29	on	on	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	international	international	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	stage	stage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lead** | past | This |  |  | 1918 |  | to political uncertainty | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to uncertainty=Patient |
| 2 | **highlight** | participle |  | political uncertainty *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **seek** | past | the Congress of Durrës | Paris Conference protection |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent protection=Theme |
| 4 | **deny** | past · passive | the Congress of Durrës *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S» |
| 5 | **complicate** | gerund | the Congress of Durrës *not said here* | Albania's position |  | the international stage |  | further *property* | tree rules |

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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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