Athens, sentence 438

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 area encompasses a variety of terrain, notably hills and mountains rising around the city, and the capital is the only major city in Europe to be bisected by a mountain range.

Who acts: Athens area, hills, capital, mountain range · What happens: encompass, rise, be, bisect · To what, where: variety, city, only major city, Europe

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 area, hills, capital, mountain range), 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	3 area	det
2	Athens	Athens	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 area	compound
3	area	area	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 encompasses	nsubj
4	encompasses	encompass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 variety	det
6	variety	variety	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 encompasses	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 terrain	case
8	terrain	terrain	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 variety	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 hills	punct
10	notably	notably	ADV	_	11 hills	advmod
11	hills	hill	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 encompasses	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 mountains	cc
13	mountains	mountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 hills	conj
14	rising	rise	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 hills	acl
15	around	around	ADP	_	17 city	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 city	det
17	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 rising	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 city	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 city	cc
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 capital	det
21	capital	capital	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 city	nsubj
22	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 city	cop
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 city	det
24	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 city	amod
25	major	major	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 city	amod
26	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 encompasses	parataxis
27	in	in	ADP	_	28 Europe	case
28	Europe	Europe	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 city	nmod
29	to	to	PART	_	31 bisected	mark
30	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	31 bisected	aux:pass
31	bisected	bisect	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 city	advcl
32	by	by	ADP	_	35 range	case
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 range	det
34	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 range	compound
35	range	range	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 bisected	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 encompasses	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	encompass	present	the Athens area	a variety of terrain		hills and mountains obl	vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot variety=Theme
2	rise	gerund	hills and mountains not said here		the city		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent around city=Location
3	is a	present	the capital	the only major city	Europe		tree rules
4	bisect	to-infinitive · passive	a mountain range				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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.

Text: the English Wikipedia, «Athens», 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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Athens, sentence 438