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title: The Germans executed around 21,000 Greeks, the Bulgarians 40,000, an… — Greece · tree and pragmatics
description: The Germans executed around 21,000 Greeks, the Bulgarians 40,000, and the Italians 9,000. Who acts: Germans. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Greece» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Greece, sentence 172

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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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The Germans executed around 21,000 Greeks, the Bulgarians 40,000, and the Italians 9,000.

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**Who acts:** Germans · **What happens:** execute · **To what, where:** 21,000 Greeks

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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 (Germans), 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:172
# text = The Germans executed around 21,000 Greeks, the Bulgarians 40,000, and the Italians 9,000.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Germans	German	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	executed	execute	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	around	around	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	21,000	21000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	Greeks	Greek	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Bulgarians	Bulgarian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
10	40,000	40000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	Italians	Italian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	3	advcl	_	_
15	9,000	9,000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	14	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **execute** | past | the Germans | 21,000 Greeks and the Bulgarians |  |  |  | the Italians *advcl* | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent greek=Patient |

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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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