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title: Through the intervention of the Great Powers, however, Greece lost l… — Greece · tree and pragmatics
description: Through the intervention of the Great Powers, however, Greece lost little territory, while Crete was established as an autonomous state under Prince George of Greece. Who acts: Greece, Great Powers. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Greece» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Greece, sentence 147

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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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Through the intervention of the Great Powers, however, Greece lost little territory, while Crete was established as an autonomous state under Prince George of Greece.

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**Who acts:** Greece, Great Powers · **What happens:** lose, establish, intervene · **To what, where:** little territory, intervention, Crete

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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 (Greece, Great Powers), 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:147
# text = Through the intervention of the Great Powers, however, Greece lost little territory, while Crete was established as an autonomous state under Prince George of Greece.
1	Through	through	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	intervention	intervention	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	Great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	Powers	Power	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
9	however	however	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
11	Greece	Greece	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	lost	lose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	territory	territory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
17	Crete	Crete	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux:pass	_	_
19	established	establish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	conj	_	_
20	as	as	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	autonomous	autonomous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	state	state	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
24	under	under	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nmod:desc	_	_
26	George	George	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	Greece	Greece	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lose** | past | Greece | little territory |  | the intervention of the Great Powers |  | however *property* | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent territory=Eventuality |
| 2 | **establish** | past · passive |  | Crete |  |  |  | as a autonomous state under George  Prince of Greece | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 3 | **intervene** |  | the Great Powers |  |  |  |  |  | nom intervention «act intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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