Greece, sentence 251
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.
Parliamentary elections are held every four years, but early elections are proclaimed by the President on the cabinet's proposal or if a motion of no confidence passes in Parliament.
Who acts: President, motion, cabinet, confidence · What happens: hold, proclaim, pass, propose, motion · To what, where: Parliamentary elections, early elections, proposal, Parliament
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 (President, motion, cabinet, confidence), 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 | Parliamentary | parliamentary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 elections | amod |
| 2 | elections | election | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 held | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 held | aux:pass |
| 4 | held | hold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 years | det |
| 6 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 years | nummod |
| 7 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 held | obl:unmarked |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 proclaimed | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 proclaimed | cc |
| 10 | early | early | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 elections | amod |
| 11 | elections | election | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 proclaimed | nsubj |
| 12 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 proclaimed | aux:pass |
| 13 | proclaimed | proclaim | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 held | parataxis |
| 14 | by | by | ADP | _ | 16 President | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 President | det |
| 16 | President | President | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 proclaimed | obl |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 proposal | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 cabinet | det |
| 19 | cabinet | cabinet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 proposal | nmod:poss |
| 20 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 19 cabinet | case |
| 21 | proposal | proposal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 proclaimed | obl |
| 22 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 29 passes | cc |
| 23 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 29 passes | mark |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 motion | det |
| 25 | motion | motion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 passes | nsubj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 confidence | case |
| 27 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 28 confidence | det |
| 28 | confidence | confidence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 motion | nmod |
| 29 | passes | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 proclaimed | conj |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 Parliament | case |
| 31 | Parliament | Parliament | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 passes | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 held | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold | present · passive | Parliamentary elections | year | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | proclaim | present · passive | the President | early elections | the cabinet's proposal | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | |||
| 3 | pass a condition, not said to happen | present | a motion of no confidence | Parliament | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in parliament=Location | ||||
| 4 | propose | the cabinet | nom proposal «communication intransitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 5 | motion | no confidence | nom motion «communication intransitive»: of=agent |
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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