Greece, sentence 212
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.
Located in Southern and Southeast Europe, Greece has the longest coastline on the Mediterranean basin, spanning thousands of islands and nine traditional geographic regions: Macedonia, Central Greece, Peloponnese, Thessaly, Epirus, Aegean Islands, Thrace, Crete and Ionian Islands.
Who acts: Greece, longest coastline · What happens: locate, have, span · To what, where: Southern, longest coastline, Mediterranean basin, thousands
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 (Greece, longest coastline), 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 | Located | locate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 has | advcl |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 3 Southern | case |
| 3 | Southern | Southern | PROPN | _ | 1 Located | obl |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 Europe | cc |
| 5 | Southeast | Southeast | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Europe | compound |
| 6 | Europe | Europe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Southern | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 has | punct |
| 8 | Greece | Greece | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 has | nsubj |
| 9 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 coastline | det |
| 11 | longest | long | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 12 coastline | amod |
| 12 | coastline | coastline | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 has | obj |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 basin | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 basin | det |
| 15 | Mediterranean | mediterranean | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 basin | amod |
| 16 | basin | basin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 coastline | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 spanning | punct |
| 18 | spanning | span | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 coastline | acl |
| 19 | thousands | thousand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 spanning | obj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 islands | case |
| 21 | islands | island | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 thousands | nmod |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 regions | cc |
| 23 | nine | nine | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 26 regions | nummod |
| 24 | traditional | traditional | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 regions | amod |
| 25 | geographic | geographic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 regions | amod |
| 26 | regions | region | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 thousands | conj |
| 27 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 28 Macedonia | punct |
| 28 | Macedonia | Macedonia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 spanning | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 Greece | punct |
| 30 | Central | Central | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 Greece | flat |
| 31 | Greece | Greece | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 Macedonia | nmod |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 Peloponnese | punct |
| 33 | Peloponnese | Peloponnese | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 Macedonia | conj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 Thessaly | punct |
| 35 | Thessaly | Thessaly | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 Macedonia | conj |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 Epirus | punct |
| 37 | Epirus | Epirus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 Macedonia | conj |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 Islands | punct |
| 39 | Aegean | aegean | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 Islands | amod |
| 40 | Islands | Island | PROPN | Number=Plur | 28 Macedonia | conj |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 Thrace | punct |
| 42 | Thrace | Thrace | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 Macedonia | conj |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 Crete | punct |
| 44 | Crete | Crete | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 Macedonia | conj |
| 45 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 47 Islands | cc |
| 46 | Ionian | Ionian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 47 Islands | compound |
| 47 | Islands | Island | PROPN | Number=Plur | 28 Macedonia | conj |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 has | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | locate | participle | Greece not said here | Southern and Southeast Europe | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have | present | Greece | the longest coastline | the Mediterranean basin | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coastline=Patient | |||
| 3 | span | gerund | the longest coastline not said here | thousands of islands and nine traditional geographic regions | Macedonia Central Greece and Peloponnese and Thessaly and Epirus and Aegean Islands and Thrace and Crete and Ionian Islands obl | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme thousand=Co-Theme |
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, «Greece», 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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