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title: The country descended into a civil war between the communist forces… — Greece · tree and pragmatics
description: The country descended into a civil war between the communist forces and the anti-communist Greek government, which lasted until 1949, with the latter's victory. Who acts: country, anti-communist Greek government. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Greece» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Greece, sentence 174

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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 country descended into a civil war between the communist forces and the anti-communist Greek government, which lasted until 1949, with the latter's victory.

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**Who acts:** country, anti-communist Greek government · **What happens:** descend, last · **To what, where:** civil war

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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 (country, anti-communist Greek government), 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:174
# text = The country descended into a civil war between the communist forces and the anti-communist Greek government, which lasted until 1949, with the latter's victory.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	descended	descend	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	into	into	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	civil	civil	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	between	between	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	communist	communist	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	forces	force	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
14	anti-communist	anti-communist	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
15	Greek	Greek	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
19	lasted	last	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl:relcl	_	_
20	until	until	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	1949	1949	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
23	with	with	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	latter	latter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	's	's	PART	POS	_	25	case	_	_
27	victory	victory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **descend** | past | the country |  |  | a civil war between the communist forces and the anti-communist Greek government |  |  | vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into war=Location |
| 2 | **last** | past | the anti-communist Greek government |  |  |  | until 1949 | with the latter's victory | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme |

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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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