Greece, sentence 517

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.

The culture of Greece has evolved, beginning in Mycenaean Greece and continuing into Classical Greece, through the influence of the Roman Empire and its Greek Eastern continuation, the Byzantine Empire.

Who acts: influence · What happens: evolve, begin, continue · To what, where: culture, influence, Mycenaean Greece, Classical Greece

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 (influence), 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 culture	det
2	culture	culture	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 evolved	nsubj:pass
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 Greece	case
4	Greece	Greece	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 culture	nmod
5	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 evolved	aux
6	evolved	evolve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 beginning	punct
8	beginning	begin	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 evolved	advcl
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 Greece	case
10	Mycenaean	mycenaean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 Greece	amod
11	Greece	Greece	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 beginning	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 continuing	cc
13	continuing	continue	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 beginning	conj
14	into	into	ADP	_	16 Greece	case
15	Classical	classical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 Greece	amod
16	Greece	Greece	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 continuing	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 influence	punct
18	through	through	ADP	_	20 influence	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 influence	det
20	influence	influence	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 evolved	obl
21	of	of	ADP	_	24 Empire	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 Empire	det
23	Roman	Roman	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 Empire	compound
24	Empire	Empire	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 influence	nmod
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 continuation	cc
26	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 continuation	nmod:poss
27	Greek	Greek	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 continuation	amod
28	Eastern	eastern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 continuation	amod
29	continuation	continuation	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 Empire	conj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 Empire	punct
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 Empire	det
32	Byzantine	Byzantine	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 Empire	compound
33	Empire	Empire	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 Empire	conj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 evolved	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	evolve	present · perfect · passive		the culture of Greece	the influence of the Roman Empire and influence's Greek Eastern continuation and the Byzantine Empire	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme
2	begin	gerund			Mycenaean Greece	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
3	continue	gerund			Classical Greece	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into greece=Initial_Location
4	continue		influence			nom continuation «act transitive»: poss=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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Greece, sentence 517