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title: Athens retains Roman, Byzantine and a smaller number of Ottoman monu… — Athens · tree and pragmatics
description: Athens retains Roman, Byzantine and a smaller number of Ottoman monuments, while its historical urban core features elements of continuity through its millennia of history. Who acts: Athens, number. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Athens» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Athens, sentence 15

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From Wikipedia, [«Athens»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athens), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.

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Athens retains Roman, Byzantine and a smaller number of Ottoman monuments, while its historical urban core features elements of continuity through its millennia of history.

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**Who acts:** Athens, number · **What happens:** retain, feature · **To what, where:** Roman, millennia

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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 (Athens, number), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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:15
# text = Athens retains Roman, Byzantine and a smaller number of Ottoman monuments, while its historical urban core features elements of continuity through its millennia of history.
1	Athens	Athens	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	retains	retain	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	Roman	Roman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	Byzantine	Byzantine	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	smaller	small	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	9	amod	_	_
9	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	Ottoman	ottoman	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	monuments	monument	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
14	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
15	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
16	historical	historical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
17	urban	urban	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
18	core	core	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	features	feature	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	compound	_	_
20	elements	element	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	continuity	continuity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
23	through	through	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	millennia	millennia	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	history	history	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **retain** | present | Athens | Roman and Byzantine and a smaller number of Ottoman monuments |  | continuity's millennia of history |  | features elements of continuity *obl* | tree rules |
| 2 | **feature** |  | number |  |  |  |  |  | nom feature «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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**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.

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