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title: Greeks in Crete continued to stage revolts, and in 1897, the Greek g… — Greece · tree and pragmatics
description: Greeks in Crete continued to stage revolts, and in 1897, the Greek government, bowing to popular pressure, declared war on the Ottomans. Who acts: Greeks. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Greece» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Greece, sentence 145

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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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Greeks in Crete continued to stage revolts, and in 1897, the Greek government, bowing to popular pressure, declared war on the Ottomans.

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**Who acts:** Greeks · **What happens:** continue, bow, declare · **To what, where:** stage revolts, war, Ottomans

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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 (Greeks), 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:145
# text = Greeks in Crete continued to stage revolts, and in 1897, the Greek government, bowing to popular pressure, declared war on the Ottomans.
1	Greeks	Greek	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	Crete	Crete	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
4	continued	continue	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
6	stage	stage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	revolts	revolt	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	1897	1897	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	Greek	Greek	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	bowing	bow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	popular	popular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	pressure	pressure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	declared	declare	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
23	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
24	on	on	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	Ottomans	Ottoman	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **continue** | past | Greeks in Crete | stage revolts |  |  |  | the Greek government *obl* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **bow** | gerund | Greeks in Crete *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to popular pressure | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to pressure=Theme |
| 3 | **declare** *speech: other* | past | Greeks in Crete *not said here* | war |  | the Ottomans |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent war=Attribute |

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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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