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title: His successor Kurt Schuschnigg acknowledged the fact that Austria wa… — Austria · tree and pragmatics
description: His successor Kurt Schuschnigg acknowledged the fact that Austria was a "German state" and he also believed that Austrians were "better Germans" but he wished that Austria would remain independent. Who acts: successor, fact, Austria. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Austria» with its dependency tree and p
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# Austria, sentence 121

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From Wikipedia, [«Austria»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austria), 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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His successor Kurt Schuschnigg acknowledged the fact that Austria was a "German state" and he also believed that Austrians were "better Germans" but he wished that Austria would remain independent.

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**Who acts:** successor, fact, Austria · **What happens:** acknowledge, be, believe, wish, remain · **To what, where:** German state, Austrians, better Germans · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Austria». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (successor, fact, Austria), 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:Austria:121
# text = His successor Kurt Schuschnigg acknowledged the fact that Austria was a "German state" and he also believed that Austrians were "better Germans" but he wished that Austria would remain independent.
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	successor	successor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	Kurt	Kurt	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
4	Schuschnigg	Schuschnigg	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	flat	_	_
5	acknowledged	acknowledge	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	fact	fact	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
8	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
9	Austria	Austria	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
12	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	German	German	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	state	state	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	also	also	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	believed	believe	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
20	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
21	Austrians	Austrian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
22	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
23	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	25	amod	_	_
25	Germans	German	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	21	punct	_	_
27	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
28	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	wished	wish	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
30	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
31	Austria	Austria	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
32	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
33	remain	remain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	ccomp	_	_
34	independent	independent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **acknowledge** | past | constitution's successor |  |  |  |  |  | vn confess-37.10 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | past | the fact | a German state |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **believe** | past | successor | Austrians and better Germans |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer austrian=Stimulus |
| 4 | **is a** *in a quote* | past | successor *not said here* | better Germans |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **wish** | past | successor |  |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 6 | **remain** | would | Austria |  |  |  |  | independent *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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, «Austria», 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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