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title: Tirana (/tɪˈrɑːnə/ tih-RAH-nə; tiˈɾana; Tirona) is the capital and l… — Tirana · tree and pragmatics
description: Tirana (/tɪˈrɑːnə/ tih-RAH-nə; tiˈɾana; Tirona) is the capital and largest city of Albania. Who acts: Tirana tih nə. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Tirana» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Tirana, sentence 1

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From Wikipedia, [«Tirana»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tirana), 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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Tirana (/tɪˈrɑːnə/ tih-RAH-nə; tiˈɾana; Tirona) is the capital and largest city of Albania.

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**Who acts:** Tirana tih nə · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** capital

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Tirana». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tirana tih nə), 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:Tirana:1
# text = Tirana (/tɪˈrɑːnə/ tih-RAH-nə; tiˈɾana; Tirona) is the capital and largest city of Albania.
1	Tirana	Tirana	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
2	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	/	/	SYM	SYM	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	tɪˈrɑːnə	tɪˈrɑːnə	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	/	/	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	_
6	tih	tih	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	RAH	RAH	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	nə	nə	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	tiˈɾana	tiˈɾana	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	Tirona	Tirona	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	14	punct	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	capital	capital	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	largest	large	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	21	amod	_	_
21	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	Albania	Albania	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Tirana tih nə and tiˈɾana | the capital and largest city of Albania |  |  |  | largest city of Albania *conj* | 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, «Tirana», 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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