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title: Civil rights were suspended, political repression intensified, and h… — Greece · tree and pragmatics
description: Civil rights were suspended, political repression intensified, and human rights abuses, including torture, were rampant. Who acts: human rights abuses. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Greece» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Greece, sentence 186

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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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Civil rights were suspended, political repression intensified, and human rights abuses, including torture, were rampant.

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**Who acts:** human rights abuses · **What happens:** suspend, intensify, be · **To what, where:** Civil rights, political repression

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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 (human rights abuses), 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:186
# text = Civil rights were suspended, political repression intensified, and human rights abuses, including torture, were rampant.
1	Civil	civil	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	rights	right	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	suspended	suspend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	political	political	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	repression	repression	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	intensified	intensify	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
11	human	human	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	rights	right	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	compound	_	_
13	abuses	abuse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	including	including	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	torture	torture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
18	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
19	rampant	rampant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **suspend** | past · passive |  | Civil rights |  |  |  | political repression *obl* | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **intensify** | participle |  | political repression *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **is** | past | human rights abuses and torture |  |  |  |  | rampant *property* | 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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