Greece, sentence 530
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.
Ancient Greek sculpture was composed almost entirely of workable and durable materials, marble or bronze, bronze becoming the favoured medium for major works by the early 5th century, while chryselephantine sculptures, made largely of gold and ivory and used for temple cult images and luxury works, were much rarer.
Who acts: bronze, workable materials · What happens: compose, become, favour, make, use, be · To what, where: Ancient Greek sculpture, favoured medium, gold
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 (bronze, workable materials), 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 | Ancient | ancient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 sculpture | amod |
| 2 | Greek | Greek | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 sculpture | amod |
| 3 | sculpture | sculpture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 composed | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 composed | aux:pass |
| 5 | composed | compose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 7 entirely | advmod |
| 7 | entirely | entirely | ADV | _ | 5 composed | advmod |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 materials | case |
| 9 | workable | workable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 materials | amod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 durable | cc |
| 11 | durable | durable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 workable | conj |
| 12 | materials | material | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 composed | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 marble | punct |
| 14 | marble | marble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 materials | conj |
| 15 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 16 bronze | cc |
| 16 | bronze | bronze | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 marble | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 bronze | punct |
| 18 | bronze | bronze | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 marble | appos |
| 19 | becoming | become | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 bronze | acl |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 medium | det |
| 21 | favoured | favour | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 medium | amod |
| 22 | medium | medium | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 becoming | xcomp |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 works | case |
| 24 | major | major | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 works | amod |
| 25 | works | work | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 becoming | obl |
| 26 | by | by | ADP | _ | 30 century | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 century | det |
| 28 | early | early | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 century | amod |
| 29 | 5th | 5th | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Combi NumType=Ord | 30 century | amod |
| 30 | century | century | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 becoming | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 sculptures | punct |
| 32 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 34 sculptures | mark |
| 33 | chryselephantine | chryselephantine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 sculptures | compound |
| 34 | sculptures | sculpture | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 materials | conj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 made | punct |
| 36 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 materials | acl |
| 37 | largely | largely | ADV | _ | 39 gold | advmod |
| 38 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 gold | case |
| 39 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 made | obj |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 ivory | cc |
| 41 | ivory | ivory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 gold | conj |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 used | cc |
| 43 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 36 made | conj |
| 44 | for | for | ADP | _ | 47 images | case |
| 45 | temple | temple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 cult | compound |
| 46 | cult | cult | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 images | compound |
| 47 | images | image | NOUN | Number=Plur | 43 used | obl |
| 48 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 50 works | cc |
| 49 | luxury | luxury | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 50 works | amod |
| 50 | works | work | NOUN | Number=Plur | 47 images | conj |
| 51 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 54 rarer | punct |
| 52 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 54 rarer | cop |
| 53 | much | much | ADV | _ | 54 rarer | advmod |
| 54 | rarer | rare | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 composed | parataxis |
| 55 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 composed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | compose | past · passive | Ancient Greek sculpture | of workable materials and marble or bronze and chryselephantine sculptures; entirely property | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Result | ||||
| 2 | become | gerund | bronze not said here | the favoured medium | century | for major works | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||
| 3 | favour | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | make | participle | workable materials and marble or bronze and chryselephantine sculptures not said here | gold and ivory | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset gold=Product | ||||
| 5 | use | participle | workable materials and marble or bronze and chryselephantine sculptures not said here | for cult images and luxury works | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | is | past | rare property | tree rules |
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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