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title: While there is a general threshold of 4% of the vote for all parties… — Austria · tree and pragmatics
description: While there is a general threshold of 4% of the vote for all parties in federal elections (Nationalratswahlen) to participate in the proportional allocation of seats, there remains the possibility of being elected to a seat directly in one of the 43 regional electoral districts (Direktmandat). Who a
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# Austria, sentence 227

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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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While there is a general threshold of 4% of the vote for all parties in federal elections (Nationalratswahlen) to participate in the proportional allocation of seats, there remains the possibility of being elected to a seat directly in one of the 43 regional electoral districts (Direktmandat).

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**Who acts:** general threshold · **What happens:** be, participate, remain, elect, allocate · **To what, where:** possibility, seats

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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 (general threshold), 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:227
# text = While there is a general threshold of 4% of the vote for all parties in federal elections (Nationalratswahlen) to participate in the proportional allocation of seats, there remains the possibility of being elected to a seat directly in one of the 43 regional electoral districts (Direktmandat).
1	While	while	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	3	expl	_	_
3	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	general	general	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	threshold	threshold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	4	4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	%	%	SYM	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	vote	vote	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	15	det	_	_
15	parties	party	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	federal	federal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	elections	election	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	_
19	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	Nationalratswahlen	Nationalratswahlen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	20	punct	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	participate	participate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	proportional	proportional	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	allocation	allocation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	seats	seat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	32	expl	_	_
32	remains	remain	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	parataxis	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	possibility	possibility	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	_
35	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	37	mark	_	_
36	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	37	aux:pass	_	_
37	elected	elect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	34	acl:relcl	_	_
38	to	to	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	seat	seat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	_
41	directly	directly	ADV	RB	_	43	advmod	_	_
42	in	in	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
43	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	37	parataxis	_	_
44	of	of	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
46	43	43	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	49	nummod	_	_
47	regional	regional	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	49	amod	_	_
48	electoral	electoral	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	49	amod	_	_
49	districts	district	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	43	nmod	_	_
50	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	51	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	Direktmandat	Direktmandat	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	49	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	51	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | present | a general threshold |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **participate** | to-infinitive | a general threshold *not said here* |  |  |  |  | in the proportional allocation of seats | vn cooperate-73.1-2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in allocation=Theme |
| 3 | **remain** | present |  | the possibility |  | there |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme possibility=Attribute |
| 4 | **elect** | gerund · passive |  | the possibility *not said here* |  |  |  | to a seat; one of the 43 regional electoral districts *parataxis* | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: to seat=Attribute |
| 5 | **allocate** |  |  | seats |  |  |  |  | nom allocation «possession 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, «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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