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title: Due to the adoption of the euro, Greece could no longer devalue its… — Greece · tree and pragmatics
description: Due to the adoption of the euro, Greece could no longer devalue its currency to regain competitiveness. Who acts: Greece. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Greece» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Greece, sentence 202

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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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Due to the adoption of the euro, Greece could no longer devalue its currency to regain competitiveness.

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**Who acts:** Greece · **What happens:** devalue, regain, adopt · **To what, where:** currency, competitiveness, euro

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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), 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:202
# text = Due to the adoption of the euro, Greece could no longer devalue its currency to regain competitiveness.
1	Due	due	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	4	case	_	_
2	to	to	ADP	IN	_	1	fixed	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	adoption	adoption	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	euro	euro	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
9	Greece	Greece	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
10	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
11	no	no	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	13	advmod	_	_
13	devalue	devalue	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
14	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	currency	currency	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	regain	regain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	advcl	_	_
18	competitiveness	competitiveness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **devalue** | could | Greece | euro's currency |  |  |  | due the adoption of the euro; long *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent currency=Patient |
| 2 | **regain** | to-infinitive | Greece *not said here* | competitiveness |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent competitiveness=Theme |
| 3 | **adopt** |  |  | the euro |  |  |  |  | nom adoption «act transitive»: of=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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