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title: Albanians were losing their mother tongue in Skopje. — Skopje · tree and pragmatics
description: Albanians were losing their mother tongue in Skopje. Who acts: Albanians. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Skopje» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Skopje, sentence 274

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From Wikipedia, [«Skopje»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skopje), 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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Albanians were losing their mother tongue in Skopje.

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**Who acts:** Albanians · **What happens:** lose · **To what, where:** mother tongue, Skopje

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Skopje». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Albanians), 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:Skopje:274
# text = Albanians were losing their mother tongue in Skopje.
1	Albanians	Albanian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	losing	lose	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
5	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	tongue	tongue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Skopje	Skopje	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lose** | past · progressive | Albanians | Albanians's mother tongue |  | Skopje |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tongue=Eventuality |

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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, «Skopje», 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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