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title: Some cities had governors appointed by the Sultan, while others, lik… — Greece · tree and pragmatics
description: Some cities had governors appointed by the Sultan, while others, like Athens, were self-governed municipalities. Who acts: cities, others. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Greece» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Greece, sentence 106

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From Wikipedia, [«Greece»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greece), 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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Some cities had governors appointed by the Sultan, while others, like Athens, were self-governed municipalities.

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**Who acts:** cities, others · **What happens:** have, appoint, govern, be · **To what, where:** governors, governed municipalities

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Greece». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cities, others), 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:Greece:106
# text = Some cities had governors appointed by the Sultan, while others, like Athens, were self-governed municipalities.
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	cities	city	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	governors	governor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
5	appointed	appoint	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
10	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
11	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	like	like	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Athens	Athens	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
16	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
17	self	self	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	governed	govern	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	amod	_	_
20	municipalities	municipality	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | some cities | governors |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent governor=Patient |
| 2 | **appoint** | participle |  | governors *not said here* |  |  |  | by the Sultan | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **govern** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | self *compound* | vn supervision-95.2.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is a** | past | others like Athens | governed municipalities |  |  |  |  | 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, «Greece», 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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