--- title: At the time, after the extensive destruction it had suffered during… — Athens · tree and pragmatics description: At the time, after the extensive destruction it had suffered during the war of independence, it was reduced to a town of about 4,000 people (less than half its earlier population) in a loose swarm of houses along the foot of the Acropolis. Who acts: extensive destruction, independence. 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At the time, after the extensive destruction it had suffered during the war of independence, it was reduced to a town of about 4,000 people (less than half its earlier population) in a loose swarm of houses along the foot of the Acropolis. **Who acts:** extensive destruction, independence · **What happens:** suffer, reduce, war · **To what, where:** destruction, loose swarm This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Athens». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (extensive destruction, independence), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = wikipedia:Athens:112 # text = At the time, after the extensive destruction it had suffered during the war of independence, it was reduced to a town of about 4,000 people (less than half its earlier population) in a loose swarm of houses along the foot of the Acropolis. 1 At at ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 5 after after ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 extensive extensive ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 destruction destruction NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 9 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj:pass _ _ 10 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ _ 11 suffered suffer VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 acl:relcl _ _ 12 during during ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 war war NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 15 of of ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 independence independence NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 18 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj:pass _ _ 19 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 aux:pass _ _ 20 reduced reduce VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 21 to to ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 town town NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 24 of of ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 25 about about ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 26 4,000 4,000 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 27 nummod _ _ 27 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nmod _ _ 28 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 34 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 29 less less ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV 31 advmod _ _ 30 than than ADP IN _ 29 fixed _ _ 31 half half DET PDT NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac|PronType=Ind 34 det:predet _ _ 32 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 34 nmod:poss _ _ 33 earlier early ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 34 amod _ _ 34 population population NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 35 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 34 punct _ _ 36 in in ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 37 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 38 loose loose ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 amod _ _ 39 swarm swarm NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 40 of of ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 41 houses house NOUN NNS Number=Plur 39 nmod _ _ 42 along along ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 43 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 44 foot foot NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 45 of of ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 46 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 47 det _ _ 47 Acropolis Acropolis PROPN NNP Number=Sing 44 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 48 . . PUNCT . _ 20 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **suffer** | past · perfect · passive | the extensive destruction *not said here* | destruction | | | during the war of independence | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | | 2 | **reduce** | past · passive | | destruction | | a loose swarm of houses | time | to a town of 4,000 people *goal*; along the foot of the Acropolis | vn limit-76 «NP V NP S\_ING»: subject=Patient to town=Goal | | 3 | **war** | | independence | | | | | | nom war «act 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. **Text:** the English Wikipedia, «Athens», 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. - ← previous: [sentence 111](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Athens/111/) - next →: [sentence 113](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Athens/113/) - ↑ back to [Athens](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Athens/)