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title: Albania's enduring partnership was with China; it sided with Beijing… — Albania · tree and pragmatics
description: Albania's enduring partnership was with China; it sided with Beijing during the Sino-Soviet conflict, resulting in severed ties with the Soviet Union and withdrawal from the Warsaw Pact in response to the invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968. Who acts: enduring partnership, partnership. A sentence of 
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# Albania, sentence 181

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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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Albania's enduring partnership was with China; it sided with Beijing during the Sino-Soviet conflict, resulting in severed ties with the Soviet Union and withdrawal from the Warsaw Pact in response to the invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968.

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**Who acts:** enduring partnership, partnership · **What happens:** be, side, result, sever, invade · **To what, where:** severed ties, Czechoslovakia

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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 (enduring partnership, partnership), 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:181
# text = Albania's enduring partnership was with China; it sided with Beijing during the Sino-Soviet conflict, resulting in severed ties with the Soviet Union and withdrawal from the Warsaw Pact in response to the invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968.
1	Albania	Albania	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	enduring	enduring	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	partnership	partnership	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	China	China	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	sided	side	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Beijing	Beijing	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
13	during	during	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
15	Sino	Sino	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	Soviet	soviet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	conflict	conflict	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	resulting	result	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	severed	sever	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	amod	_	_
23	ties	tie	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	_
24	with	with	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	Soviet	Soviet	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	Union	Union	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	withdrawal	withdrawal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	_
30	from	from	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	Warsaw	Warsaw	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
33	Pact	Pact	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	_
34	in	in	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	response	response	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
36	to	to	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	invasion	invasion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	_
39	of	of	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	Czechoslovakia	Czechoslovakia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	nmod	_	_
41	in	in	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	1968	1968	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | Albania's enduring partnership |  |  |  |  | with China | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **side** | past | partnership |  |  |  | during the Sino Soviet conflict | with Beijing | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with beijing=Theme |
| 3 | **result** | gerund | partnership *not said here* |  |  | severed ties with the Soviet Union and withdrawal from the Warsaw Pact |  | in response to the invasion of Czechoslovakia; in 1968 | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in tie=Location |
| 4 | **sever** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn separate-23.1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **invade** |  |  | Czechoslovakia |  |  |  |  | nom invasion «act transitive»: of=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, «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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