--- title: Freedom House's Nations in Transit assessment described Albania's na… — Albania · tree and pragmatics description: Freedom House's Nations in Transit assessment described Albania's national governance as democratic but dominated by clientelist party politics and individual personalities, and stated that elections were frequently marred by vote-buying, manipulation, fraud and gerrymandering. 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Freedom House's Nations in Transit assessment described Albania's national governance as democratic but dominated by clientelist party politics and individual personalities, and stated that elections were frequently marred by vote-buying, manipulation, fraud and gerrymandering. **Who acts:** Nations, vote buying · **What happens:** describe, dominate, state, mar, gerrymander · **To what, where:** national governance, elections · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (Nations, vote buying), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:212 # text = Freedom House's Nations in Transit assessment described Albania's national governance as democratic but dominated by clientelist party politics and individual personalities, and stated that elections were frequently marred by vote-buying, manipulation, fraud and gerrymandering. 1 Freedom Freedom PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 House House PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 3 's 's PART POS _ 2 case _ _ 4 Nations Nation PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 8 nsubj _ _ 5 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 Transit transit NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 assessment assessment NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ 8 described describe VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 Albania Albania PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 10 's 's PART POS _ 9 case _ _ 11 national national ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 governance governance NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 13 as as ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 democratic democratic ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 nmod _ _ 15 but but CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 dominated dominate VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 14 conj _ _ 17 by by ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 18 clientelist clientelist NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 compound _ _ 19 party party NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 compound _ _ 20 politics politics NOUN NNS Number=Ptan 16 obl _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 22 individual individual ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 personalities personality NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 26 stated state VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 parataxis _ _ 27 that that SCONJ IN _ 31 mark _ _ 28 elections election NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 nsubj _ _ 29 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 31 aux:pass _ _ 30 frequently frequently ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 31 marred mar VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 26 ccomp _ _ 32 by by ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 33 vote vote NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 34 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 33 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 35 buying buying NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 37 manipulation manipulation NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 38 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 39 fraud fraud NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 conj _ _ 40 and and CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 41 gerrymandering gerrymander VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 39 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **describe** | past | Freedom House's Nations in Transit assessment | Albania's national governance | | | | as democratic | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent governance=Theme as democratic=Attribute | | 2 | **dominate** | participle | Freedom House's Nations in Transit assessment *not said here* | | | | | by party politics and individual personalities | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **state** *speech: other* | past | | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **mar** | past · passive | vote buying and manipulation and fraud | elections | | | | frequently *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **gerrymander** | gerund | vote buying and manipulation and fraud *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 211](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Albania/211/) - next →: [sentence 213](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Albania/213/) - ↑ back to [Albania](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Albania/)