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title: Parliamentary elections are held every four years, but early electio… — Greece · tree and pragmatics
description: Parliamentary elections are held every four years, but early elections are proclaimed by the President on the cabinet's proposal or if a motion of no confidence passes in Parliament. Who acts: President, motion, cabinet, confidence. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Greece» with its dependency tree and pra
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# Greece, sentence 251

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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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Parliamentary elections are held every four years, but early elections are proclaimed by the President on the cabinet's proposal or if a motion of no confidence passes in Parliament.

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**Who acts:** President, motion, cabinet, confidence · **What happens:** hold, proclaim, pass, propose, motion · **To what, where:** Parliamentary elections, early elections, proposal, Parliament

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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 (President, motion, cabinet, confidence), 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:251
# text = Parliamentary elections are held every four years, but early elections are proclaimed by the President on the cabinet's proposal or if a motion of no confidence passes in Parliament.
1	Parliamentary	parliamentary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	elections	election	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	held	hold	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	7	det	_	_
6	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
10	early	early	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	elections	election	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
12	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	proclaimed	proclaim	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	parataxis	_	_
14	by	by	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	President	President	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	on	on	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	cabinet	cabinet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	's	's	PART	POS	_	19	case	_	_
21	proposal	proposal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
22	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
23	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	motion	motion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	28	det	_	_
28	confidence	confidence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
29	passes	pass	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	Parliament	Parliament	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hold** | present · passive |  | Parliamentary elections |  |  | year |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **proclaim** | present · passive | the President | early elections |  | the cabinet's proposal |  |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
| 3 | **pass** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | a motion of no confidence |  |  | Parliament |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in parliament=Location |
| 4 | **propose** |  | the cabinet |  |  |  |  |  | nom proposal «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |
| 5 | **motion** |  | no confidence |  |  |  |  |  | nom motion «communication intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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