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title: He was succeeded by Foreign Minister Alexander Schallenberg of the Ö… — Austria · tree and pragmatics
description: He was succeeded by Foreign Minister Alexander Schallenberg of the ÖVP. Who acts: Alexander. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Austria» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Austria, sentence 259

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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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He was succeeded by Foreign Minister Alexander Schallenberg of the ÖVP.

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**Who acts:** Alexander · **What happens:** succeed · **To what, where:** chancellor

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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 (Alexander), 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:259
# text = He was succeeded by Foreign Minister Alexander Schallenberg of the ÖVP.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	succeeded	succeed	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	by	by	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	Foreign	Foreign	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	Minister	Minister	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod:desc	_	_
7	Alexander	Alexander	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	Schallenberg	Schallenberg	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	flat	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	ÖVP	övp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **succeed** | past · passive | Alexander  Foreign Minister of the ÖVP | chancellor |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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