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title: On 11 October 2021, Chancellor Sebastian Kurz resigned following pre… — Austria · tree and pragmatics
description: On 11 October 2021, Chancellor Sebastian Kurz resigned following pressure from a corruption scandal. Who acts: Chancellor. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Austria» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Austria, sentence 258

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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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On 11 October 2021, Chancellor Sebastian Kurz resigned following pressure from a corruption scandal.

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**Who acts:** Chancellor · **What happens:** resign, follow · **To what, where:** following pressure, 11

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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 (Chancellor), 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:258
# text = On 11 October 2021, Chancellor Sebastian Kurz resigned following pressure from a corruption scandal.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	11	11	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	obl	_	_
3	October	October	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:unmarked	_	_
4	2021	2021	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
6	Chancellor	Chancellor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
7	Sebastian	Sebastian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	_
8	Kurz	Kurz	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	_
9	resigned	resign	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	following	follow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	amod	_	_
11	pressure	pressure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	from	from	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	corruption	corruption	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	scandal	scandal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **resign** | past | Chancellor | following pressure |  | 11 |  | from a corruption scandal | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent pressure=Theme |
| 2 | **follow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «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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