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title: On 28 November 1912, the national flag was raised in Vlorë by Presid… — Tirana · tree and pragmatics
description: On 28 November 1912, the national flag was raised in Vlorë by President Ismail Qemali, marking the symbolic birth of Albania as a sovereign country. Who acts: Ismail. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Tirana» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Tirana, sentence 33

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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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On 28 November 1912, the national flag was raised in Vlorë by President Ismail Qemali, marking the symbolic birth of Albania as a sovereign country.

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**Who acts:** Ismail · **What happens:** raise, mark · **To what, where:** national flag, 28, symbolic birth

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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 (Ismail), 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:33
# text = On 28 November 1912, the national flag was raised in Vlorë by President Ismail Qemali, marking the symbolic birth of Albania as a sovereign country.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	28	28	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	obl	_	_
3	November	November	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:unmarked	_	_
4	1912	1912	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	national	national	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	flag	flag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	raised	raise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Vlorë	Vlorë	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
13	by	by	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	President	President	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod:desc	_	_
15	Ismail	Ismail	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl:agent	_	_
16	Qemali	Qemali	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	marking	mark	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	symbolic	symbolic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	birth	birth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	Albania	Albania	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
24	as	as	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	sovereign	sovereign	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **raise** | past · passive | Ismail  President | the national flag |  | 28 |  | in Vlorë | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent subject=Theme on 28=Destination in vlorë=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **mark** | gerund | Ismail  President *not said here* | the symbolic birth of Albania |  |  |  | as a sovereign country | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent birth=Theme as country=Attribute |

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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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