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title: They settled in poor neighbourhoods and brought with them Rebetiko m… — Athens · tree and pragmatics
description: They settled in poor neighbourhoods and brought with them Rebetiko music, making it also popular in Greece, and which later became the base for the Laïko music. Who acts: Greek. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Athens» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Athens, sentence 418

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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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They settled in poor neighbourhoods and brought with them Rebetiko music, making it also popular in Greece, and which later became the base for the Laïko music.

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**Who acts:** Greek · **What happens:** settle, bring, make, become · **To what, where:** poor neighbourhoods, Rebetiko music, music, base

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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 (Greek), 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:418
# text = They settled in poor neighbourhoods and brought with them Rebetiko music, making it also popular in Greece, and which later became the base for the Laïko music.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	settled	settle	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	neighbourhoods	neighbourhood	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	brought	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obl	_	_
10	Rebetiko	Rebetiko	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	music	music	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	making	make	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	also	also	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	popular	popular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	xcomp	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	Greece	Greece	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	23	nsubj	_	_
22	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	23	advmod	_	_
23	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	base	base	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	xcomp	_	_
26	for	for	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	Laïko	Laïko	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	music	music	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **settle** | past | Greek |  |  | poor neighbourhoods |  |  | vn odge-46-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in neighbourhood=Location |
| 2 | **bring** | past | Greek *not said here* | Rebetiko music |  |  |  | with Greek | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent music=Theme |
| 3 | **make** | gerund | Greek *not said here* | music |  |  |  | popular *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product |
| 4 | **become** | past |  | the base for the Laïko music |  |  |  | which *nsubj*; late *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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