---
title: Many Greeks were conscripted as Ottoman subjects to serve in the Ott… — Greece · tree and pragmatics
description: Many Greeks were conscripted as Ottoman subjects to serve in the Ottoman army and especially the navy, while the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, responsible for the Orthodox, remained in general loyal to the Empire. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Greece» with its dependency tree and pragmatic
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Greece/111/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[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/) / [Greece](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Greece/) / 111

# Greece, sentence 111

<!-- div src -->

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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Many Greeks were conscripted as Ottoman subjects to serve in the Ottoman army and especially the navy, while the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, responsible for the Orthodox, remained in general loyal to the Empire.

<!-- .vintro -->
**What happens:** conscript, serve, remain · **To what, where:** Many Greeks, general loyal Empire

<!-- .vabout -->
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: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**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:111
# text = Many Greeks were conscripted as Ottoman subjects to serve in the Ottoman army and especially the navy, while the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, responsible for the Orthodox, remained in general loyal to the Empire.
1	Many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	Greeks	Greek	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	conscripted	conscript	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	as	as	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	Ottoman	ottoman	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	subjects	subject	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	serve	serve	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	Ottoman	ottoman	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	army	army	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	especially	especially	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	navy	navy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	Ecumenical	ecumenical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	Patriarchate	patriarchate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	parataxis	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	Constantinople	Constantinople	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	responsible	responsible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
27	for	for	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	Orthodox	orthodox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
31	remained	remain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	parataxis	_	_
32	in	in	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
33	general	general	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
34	loyal	loyal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
35	to	to	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	Empire	Empire	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **conscript** | past · passive |  | Many Greeks |  |  |  | as Ottoman subjects | tree rules |
| 2 | **serve** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | in the Ottoman army and the navy; the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople *parataxis* | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent in army=Attribute |
| 3 | **remain** | participle |  |  |  | the general loyal Empire |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in empire=Location |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 110](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Greece/110/)
- next →: [sentence 112](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Greece/112/)
- ↑ back to [Greece](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Greece/)