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title: The city has Greece's largest airport and its largest port; Piraeus,… — Athens · tree and pragmatics
description: The city has Greece's largest airport and its largest port; Piraeus, too, is the largest container transport port in the Mediterranean, and the largest passenger port in Europe. Who acts: city, Piraeus. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Athens» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Athens, sentence 312

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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 city has Greece's largest airport and its largest port; Piraeus, too, is the largest container transport port in the Mediterranean, and the largest passenger port in Europe.

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**Who acts:** city, Piraeus · **What happens:** have, be · **To what, where:** largest airport, largest transport port, Mediterranean

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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 (city, Piraeus), 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:312
# text = The city has Greece's largest airport and its largest port; Piraeus, too, is the largest container transport port in the Mediterranean, and the largest passenger port in Europe.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	Greece	Greece	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	largest	large	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	7	amod	_	_
7	airport	airport	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
10	largest	large	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	11	amod	_	_
11	port	port	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
13	Piraeus	Piraeus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
15	too	too	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
19	largest	large	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	22	amod	_	_
20	container	container	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	transport	transport	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	port	port	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	Mediterranean	Mediterranean	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
29	largest	large	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	31	amod	_	_
30	passenger	passenger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	port	port	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	_
32	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	Europe	Europe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | the city | Greece's largest airport and hub's largest port |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent airport=Patient |
| 2 | **is a** | present | Piraeus | the largest transport port and the largest passenger port in Europe |  | the Mediterranean |  | the largest passenger port in Europe *conj* | tree rules |

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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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