--- title: The most successful songs during the period 1870–1930 were the Athen… — Athens · tree and pragmatics description: The most successful songs during the period 1870–1930 were the Athenian serenades (Αθηναϊκές καντάδες), based on the Heptanesean kantádhes (καντάδες 'serenades'; sing.: καντάδα) and the songs performed on stage (επιθεωρησιακά τραγούδια 'theatrical revue songs') in revues, musical comedies, operettas --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Athens/416/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [wikipedia](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/) / [en](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/) / [Athens](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Athens/) / 416 # Athens, sentence 416 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. The most successful songs during the period 1870–1930 were the Athenian serenades (Αθηναϊκές καντάδες), based on the Heptanesean kantádhes (καντάδες 'serenades'; sing.: καντάδα) and the songs performed on stage (επιθεωρησιακά τραγούδια 'theatrical revue songs') in revues, musical comedies, operettas and nocturnes that were dominating Athens's theatre scene. **Who acts:** successful songs, nocturnes · **What happens:** be, base, sing, perform, dominate · **To what, where:** Athenian serenades, Heptanesean kantádhes, καντάδα, songs, stage, theatre scene 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 (successful songs, nocturnes), 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:416 # text = The most successful songs during the period 1870–1930 were the Athenian serenades (Αθηναϊκές καντάδες), based on the Heptanesean kantádhes (καντάδες 'serenades'; sing.: καντάδα) and the songs performed on stage (επιθεωρησιακά τραγούδια 'theatrical revue songs') in revues, musical comedies, operettas and nocturnes that were dominating Athens's theatre scene. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 2 most most ADV RBS Degree=Sup 3 advmod _ _ 3 successful successful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 songs song NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nsubj _ _ 5 during during ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 period period NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ 8 1870 1870 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 7 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 9 – – SYM SYM ExtPos=ADP 10 case _ SpaceAfter=No 10 1930 1930 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 8 nmod _ _ 11 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 cop _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 Athenian Athenian PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 compound _ _ 14 serenades serenade NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 15 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 17 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 16 Αθηναϊκές Αθηναϊκές PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 compound _ _ 17 καντάδες καντάδες NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 18 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 17 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 20 based base VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 14 acl _ _ 21 on on ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 23 Heptanesean Heptanesean PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 compound _ _ 24 kantádhes kantádhe NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obl _ _ 25 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 26 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 26 καντάδες καντάδες NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 conj _ _ 27 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 28 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 28 serenades serenade NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 29 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 28 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 30 ; ; PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 31 sing sing VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 32 .: .: SYM NFP _ 33 discourse _ _ 33 καντάδα καντάδα NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 34 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 31 punct _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 songs song NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 conj _ _ 38 performed perform VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 37 acl _ _ 39 on on ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 40 stage stage NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obl _ _ 41 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 43 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 42 επιθεωρησιακά επιθεωρησιακά NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 compound _ _ 43 τραγούδια τραγούδια NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 appos _ _ 44 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 43 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 45 theatrical theatrical ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 47 amod _ _ 46 revue revue NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 compound _ _ 47 songs song NOUN NNS Number=Plur 43 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 48 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 47 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 49 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 43 punct _ _ 50 in in ADP IN _ 51 case _ _ 51 revues revue NOUN NNS Number=Plur 38 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 52 , , PUNCT , _ 54 punct _ _ 53 musical musical ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 54 amod _ _ 54 comedies comedy NOUN NNS Number=Plur 51 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 55 , , PUNCT , _ 56 punct _ _ 56 operettas operetta NOUN NNS Number=Plur 51 conj _ _ 57 and and CCONJ CC _ 58 cc _ _ 58 nocturnes nocturne NOUN NNS Number=Plur 51 conj _ _ 59 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 61 nsubj _ _ 60 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 61 aux _ _ 61 dominating dominate VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 58 acl:relcl _ _ 62 Athens Athens PROPN NNP Number=Sing 65 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 63 's 's PART POS _ 62 case _ _ 64 theatre theatre NOUN NN Number=Sing 65 compound _ _ 65 scene scene NOUN NN Number=Sing 61 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 66 . . PUNCT . _ 14 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | past | the successful songs during the period | the Athenian serenades and the songs | | | | Αθηναϊκές καντάδες *appos*; the songs *conj* | tree rules | | 2 | **base** | participle | | the Athenian serenades and the songs *not said here* | | the Heptanesean kantádhes and καντάδες | | | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent on kantádhe=Source | | 3 | **sing** *speech: express* | infinitive | | καντάδα | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location καντάδα=Theme | | 4 | **perform** | participle | | the songs *not said here* | | stage | | in revues and musical comedies and operettas and nocturnes | vn performance-26.7 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **dominate** | past · progressive | nocturnes | Athens's theatre scene | | | | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme scene=Co-Theme | 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 415](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Athens/415/) - next →: [sentence 417](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Athens/417/) - ↑ back to [Athens](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Athens/)