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title: Despite the absolutism of Otto's reign, it proved instrumental in de… — Greece · tree and pragmatics
description: Despite the absolutism of Otto's reign, it proved instrumental in developing institutions which are still the bedrock of Greek administration and education. Who acts: reign, institutions. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Greece» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Greece, sentence 133

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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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Despite the absolutism of Otto's reign, it proved instrumental in developing institutions which are still the bedrock of Greek administration and education.

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**Who acts:** reign, institutions · **What happens:** prove, develop, be · **To what, where:** institutions, bedrock

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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 (reign, institutions), 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:133
# text = Despite the absolutism of Otto's reign, it proved instrumental in developing institutions which are still the bedrock of Greek administration and education.
1	Despite	despite	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	absolutism	absolutism	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	Otto	Otto	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	reign	reign	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	proved	prove	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	instrumental	instrumental	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	xcomp	_	_
12	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
13	developing	develop	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
14	institutions	institution	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
15	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
16	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
17	still	still	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	bedrock	bedrock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	acl:relcl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	Greek	Greek	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	administration	administration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	education	education	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **prove** | past | reign |  |  |  |  | despite the absolutism of Otto's reign; instrumental *property* | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **develop** | gerund | reign *not said here* | institutions |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent institution=Product |
| 3 | **is a** | present | institutions | the bedrock |  |  | still | of Greek administration and education | 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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