Athens, sentence 258
From Wikipedia, «Athens», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.
The Athens city coastline, extending from the major commercial port of Piraeus to the southernmost suburb of Varkiza for some 25 km, is also connected to the City Centre by tram.
Who acts: Athens city coastline, tram · What happens: extend, connect · To what, where: southernmost suburb, major commercial port, Athens city coastline
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Athens». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Athens city coastline, tram), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 coastline | det |
| 2 | Athens | Athens | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 coastline | compound |
| 3 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 coastline | compound |
| 4 | coastline | coastline | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 connected | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 extending | punct |
| 6 | extending | extend | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 coastline | acl |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 port | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 port | det |
| 9 | major | major | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 port | amod |
| 10 | commercial | commercial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 port | amod |
| 11 | port | port | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 extending | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 Piraeus | case |
| 13 | Piraeus | Piraeus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 port | nmod |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 suburb | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 suburb | det |
| 16 | southernmost | southernmost | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 suburb | amod |
| 17 | suburb | suburb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 extending | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 Varkiza | case |
| 19 | Varkiza | Varkiza | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 suburb | nmod |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 km | case |
| 21 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 23 km | det |
| 22 | 25 | 25 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 23 km | nummod |
| 23 | km | km | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 suburb | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 coastline | punct |
| 25 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 connected | aux:pass |
| 26 | also | also | ADV | _ | 27 connected | advmod |
| 27 | connected | connect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 28 | to | to | ADP | _ | 31 Centre | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 Centre | det |
| 30 | City | City | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 Centre | compound |
| 31 | Centre | Centre | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 connected | obl |
| 32 | by | by | ADP | _ | 33 tram | case |
| 33 | tram | tram | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 connected | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 27 connected | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | extend | gerund | the Athens city coastline not said here | the southernmost suburb of Varkiza for some 25 km | the major commercial port of Piraeus | vn contribute-13.2-2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to suburb=Recipient | |||
| 2 | connect | present · passive | tram | the Athens city coastline | to the City Centre | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent subject=Patient to centre=Co-Patient |
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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