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title: The country's main political divergence is between the largely ethni… — North Macedonia · tree and pragmatics
description: The country's main political divergence is between the largely ethnically based political parties representing the country's ethnic Macedonian majority and Albanian minority. Who acts: main political divergence, based political parties, country. A sentence of Wikipedia's «North Macedonia» with its d
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# North Macedonia, sentence 255

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From Wikipedia, [«North Macedonia»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Macedonia), 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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The country's main political divergence is between the largely ethnically based political parties representing the country's ethnic Macedonian majority and Albanian minority.

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**Who acts:** main political divergence, based political parties, country · **What happens:** base, be, represent, diverge · **To what, where:** ethnic Macedonian majority

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «North Macedonia». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (main political divergence, based political parties, country), 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:North_Macedonia:255
# text = The country's main political divergence is between the largely ethnically based political parties representing the country's ethnic Macedonian majority and Albanian minority.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	main	main	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	political	political	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	divergence	divergence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
8	between	between	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
10	largely	largely	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
11	ethnically	ethnically	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	based	base	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	amod	_	_
13	political	political	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	parties	party	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
15	representing	represent	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	acl	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	's	's	PART	POS	_	17	case	_	_
19	ethnic	ethnic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
20	Macedonian	Macedonian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	majority	majority	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	Albanian	Albanian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	minority	minority	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **base** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | ethnically, largely *property* | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | present | the country's main political divergence |  |  |  |  | between the based political parties | tree rules |
| 3 | **represent** | gerund | the based political parties *not said here* | the country's ethnic Macedonian majority and Albanian minority |  |  |  |  | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot majority=Theme |
| 4 | **diverge** |  | the country |  |  |  |  |  | nom divergence «act intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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, «North Macedonia», 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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