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title: Located in Southern and Southeast Europe, Greece has the longest coa… — Greece · tree and pragmatics
description: Located in Southern and Southeast Europe, Greece has the longest coastline on the Mediterranean basin, spanning thousands of islands and nine traditional geographic regions: Macedonia, Central Greece, Peloponnese, Thessaly, Epirus, Aegean Islands, Thrace, Crete and Ionian Islands. Who acts: Greece, 
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# Greece, sentence 212

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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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Located in Southern and Southeast Europe, Greece has the longest coastline on the Mediterranean basin, spanning thousands of islands and nine traditional geographic regions: Macedonia, Central Greece, Peloponnese, Thessaly, Epirus, Aegean Islands, Thrace, Crete and Ionian Islands.

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**Who acts:** Greece, longest coastline · **What happens:** locate, have, span · **To what, where:** Southern, longest coastline, Mediterranean basin, thousands

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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, longest coastline), 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:212
# text = Located in Southern and Southeast Europe, Greece has the longest coastline on the Mediterranean basin, spanning thousands of islands and nine traditional geographic regions: Macedonia, Central Greece, Peloponnese, Thessaly, Epirus, Aegean Islands, Thrace, Crete and Ionian Islands.
1	Located	locate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	advcl	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	Southern	Southern	PROPN	NNP	_	1	obl	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	Southeast	Southeast	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	Europe	Europe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	Greece	Greece	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	longest	long	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	12	amod	_	_
12	coastline	coastline	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	Mediterranean	mediterranean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	basin	basin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	spanning	span	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	acl	_	_
19	thousands	thousand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	islands	island	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nmod	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
23	nine	nine	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	26	nummod	_	_
24	traditional	traditional	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
25	geographic	geographic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	regions	region	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	28	punct	_	_
28	Macedonia	Macedonia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	Central	Central	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	flat	_	_
31	Greece	Greece	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
33	Peloponnese	Peloponnese	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
35	Thessaly	Thessaly	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
37	Epirus	Epirus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
39	Aegean	aegean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	Islands	Island	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	28	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
42	Thrace	Thrace	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
44	Crete	Crete	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	conj	_	_
45	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
46	Ionian	Ionian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	47	compound	_	_
47	Islands	Island	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	28	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **locate** | participle | Greece *not said here* |  |  | Southern and Southeast Europe |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** | present | Greece | the longest coastline |  | the Mediterranean basin |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coastline=Patient |
| 3 | **span** | gerund | the longest coastline *not said here* | thousands of islands and nine traditional geographic regions |  |  |  | Macedonia  Central Greece and Peloponnese and Thessaly and Epirus and Aegean Islands and Thrace and Crete and Ionian Islands *obl* | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme thousand=Co-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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