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title: The Athens city coastline, extending from the major commercial port… — Athens · tree and pragmatics
description: The Athens city coastline, extending from the major commercial port of Piraeus to the southernmost suburb of Varkiza for some 25 km, is also connected to the City Centre by tram. Who acts: Athens city coastline, tram. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Athens» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Athens, sentence 258

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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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The Athens city coastline, extending from the major commercial port of Piraeus to the southernmost suburb of Varkiza for some 25 km, is also connected to the City Centre by tram.

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**Who acts:** Athens city coastline, tram · **What happens:** extend, connect · **To what, where:** southernmost suburb, major commercial port, Athens city coastline

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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 city coastline, tram), 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:258
# text = The Athens city coastline, extending from the major commercial port of Piraeus to the southernmost suburb of Varkiza for some 25 km, is also connected to the City Centre by tram.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	Athens	Athens	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
3	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	coastline	coastline	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	extending	extend	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	acl	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	major	major	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	commercial	commercial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	port	port	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Piraeus	Piraeus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	southernmost	southernmost	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	suburb	suburb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	Varkiza	Varkiza	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
20	for	for	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	23	det	_	_
22	25	25	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	23	nummod	_	_
23	km	km	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
25	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux:pass	_	_
26	also	also	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	connected	connect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
28	to	to	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	City	City	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	Centre	Centre	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
32	by	by	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	tram	tram	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	27	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **extend** | gerund | the Athens city coastline *not said here* |  | the southernmost suburb of Varkiza for some 25 km | the major commercial port of Piraeus |  |  | vn contribute-13.2-2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to suburb=Recipient |
| 2 | **connect** | present · passive | tram | the Athens city coastline |  |  |  | to the City Centre | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent subject=Patient to centre=Co-Patient |

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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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