Greece, sentence 145
From Wikipedia, «Greece», 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.
Greeks in Crete continued to stage revolts, and in 1897, the Greek government, bowing to popular pressure, declared war on the Ottomans.
Who acts: Greeks · What happens: continue, bow, declare · To what, where: stage revolts, war, Ottomans
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Greece». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Greeks), 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 | Greeks | Greek | PROPN | Number=Plur | 4 continued | nsubj |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 3 Crete | case |
| 3 | Crete | Crete | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Greeks | nmod |
| 4 | continued | continue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 revolts | mark |
| 6 | stage | stage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 revolts | compound |
| 7 | revolts | revolt | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 continued | xcomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 government | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 government | cc |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 1897 | case |
| 11 | 1897 | 1897 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 15 government | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 1897 | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 government | det |
| 14 | Greek | Greek | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 government | amod |
| 15 | government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 continued | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 bowing | punct |
| 17 | bowing | bow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 continued | advcl |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 pressure | case |
| 19 | popular | popular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 pressure | amod |
| 20 | pressure | pressure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 bowing | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 declared | punct |
| 22 | declared | declare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 continued | conj |
| 23 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 declared | obj |
| 24 | on | on | ADP | _ | 26 Ottomans | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 Ottomans | det |
| 26 | Ottomans | Ottoman | PROPN | Number=Plur | 22 declared | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 continued | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | continue | past | Greeks in Crete | stage revolts | the Greek government obl | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | bow | gerund | Greeks in Crete not said here | to popular pressure | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to pressure=Theme | ||||
| 3 | declare speech: other | past | Greeks in Crete not said here | war | the Ottomans | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent war=Attribute |
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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