Athens, sentence 4
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 Municipality of Athens (also City of Athens), which constitutes a small administrative unit of the entire urban area, had a population of 643,452 in 2021, within its official limits, and a land area of 38.96 sqkm.
Who acts: Municipality · What happens: constitute, have · To what, where: small administrative unit, population
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 (Municipality), 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 | 2 Municipality | det |
| 2 | Municipality | Municipality | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 had | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 Athens | case |
| 4 | Athens | Athens | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Municipality | nmod |
| 5 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 7 City | punct |
| 6 | also | also | ADV | _ | 7 City | advmod |
| 7 | City | City | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Municipality | appos |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 Athens | case |
| 9 | Athens | Athens | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 City | nmod |
| 10 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 7 City | punct |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 constitutes | punct |
| 12 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 constitutes | nsubj |
| 13 | constitutes | constitute | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 Municipality | acl:relcl |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 unit | det |
| 15 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 unit | amod |
| 16 | administrative | administrative | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 unit | amod |
| 17 | unit | unit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 constitutes | obj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 area | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 area | det |
| 20 | entire | entire | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 area | amod |
| 21 | urban | urban | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 area | amod |
| 22 | area | area | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 unit | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Municipality | punct |
| 24 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 population | det |
| 26 | population | population | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 had | obj |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 643,452 | case |
| 28 | 643,452 | 643,452 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 26 population | nmod |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 2021 | case |
| 30 | 2021 | 2021 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 28 643,452 | nmod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 limits | punct |
| 32 | within | within | ADP | _ | 35 limits | case |
| 33 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 limits | nmod:poss |
| 34 | official | official | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 limits | amod |
| 35 | limits | limit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 had | obl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 sqkm | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 sqkm | cc |
| 38 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 40 area | det |
| 39 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 area | compound |
| 40 | area | area | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 sqkm | compound |
| 41 | of | of | ADP | _ | 42 38.96 | case |
| 42 | 38.96 | 38.96 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 40 area | nmod |
| 43 | sqkm | sqkm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 had | conj |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 24 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | constitute | present | the Municipality of Athens | a small administrative unit of the entire urban area | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme unit=Pivot | ||||
| 2 | have | past | the Municipality of Athens | a population of 643,452 in 2021 | within area's official limits; area sqkm conj | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent population=Patient |
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