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title: Albania was inhabited by several Illyrian tribes, among them the Ard… — Albania · tree and pragmatics
description: Albania was inhabited by several Illyrian tribes, among them the Ardiaei, Bylliones, Dassaretii, Enchele, and Taulantians, with the Chaonians settled in the southwest. Who acts: several Illyrian tribes, Chaonians. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Albania» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Albania, sentence 6

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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 was inhabited by several Illyrian tribes, among them the Ardiaei, Bylliones, Dassaretii, Enchele, and Taulantians, with the Chaonians settled in the southwest.

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**Who acts:** several Illyrian tribes, Chaonians · **What happens:** inhabit, settle · **To what, where:** Albania, southwest

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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 (several Illyrian tribes, Chaonians), 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:6
# text = Albania was inhabited by several Illyrian tribes, among them the Ardiaei, Bylliones, Dassaretii, Enchele, and Taulantians, with the Chaonians settled in the southwest.
1	Albania	Albania	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	inhabited	inhabit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	by	by	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	Illyrian	illyrian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	tribes	tribe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	among	among	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obl	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	Ardiaei	Ardiaei	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	Bylliones	Bylliones	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	Dassaretii	Dassaretii	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	Enchele	Enchele	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	Taulantians	Taulantian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	Chaonians	Chaonian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	26	nsubj	_	_
26	settled	settle	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	southwest	southwest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **inhabit** | past · passive | several Illyrian tribes | Albania |  |  |  | the Ardiaei among tribes and Dassaretii and Enchele and Taulantians *parataxis* | tree rules |
| 2 | **settle** | past | the Chaonians |  |  | the southwest |  |  | vn odge-46-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in southwest=Location |

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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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