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title: International assessments generally describe Albania as a competitiv… — Albania · tree and pragmatics
description: International assessments generally describe Albania as a competitive but weakened democracy, with persistent problems involving corruption, political pressure on institutions, media freedom, gender-based violence, prison conditions and discrimination against vulnerable groups. Who acts: Internation
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# Albania, sentence 326

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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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International assessments generally describe Albania as a competitive but weakened democracy, with persistent problems involving corruption, political pressure on institutions, media freedom, gender-based violence, prison conditions and discrimination against vulnerable groups.

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**Who acts:** International assessments, persistent problems · **What happens:** describe, weaken, involve, base · **To what, where:** Albania, democracy, corruption

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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 (International assessments, persistent problems), 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:326
# text = International assessments generally describe Albania as a competitive but weakened democracy, with persistent problems involving corruption, political pressure on institutions, media freedom, gender-based violence, prison conditions and discrimination against vulnerable groups.
1	International	international	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	assessments	assessment	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	generally	generally	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	describe	describe	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	Albania	Albania	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	competitive	competitive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	advcl	_	_
9	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	weakened	weaken	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
11	democracy	democracy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	persistent	persistent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	problems	problem	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	_
16	involving	involve	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	acl	_	_
17	corruption	corruption	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	political	political	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	pressure	pressure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
21	on	on	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	institutions	institution	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	media	media	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	freedom	freedom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
27	gender	gender	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	based	base	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	30	amod	_	_
30	violence	violence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
32	prison	prison	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
33	conditions	condition	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	conj	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	discrimination	discrimination	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	conj	_	_
36	against	against	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	vulnerable	vulnerable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	groups	group	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **describe** | present | International assessments | Albania |  |  |  | generally *property* | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent albania=Theme |
| 2 | **weaken** | past | International assessments *not said here* | democracy |  |  |  | persistent problems  political pressure on institutions and media freedom and based violence and prison conditions against vulnerable groups and discrimination *conj* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent democracy=Patient |
| 3 | **involve** | gerund | persistent problems  political pressure on institutions and media freedom and based violence and prison conditions against vulnerable groups and discrimination *not said here* | corruption |  |  |  |  | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent corruption=Theme |
| 4 | **base** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | gender *compound* | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent |

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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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