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title: Greece spends over US$7 billion annually on its military, or 2.3% of… — Greece · tree and pragmatics
description: Greece spends over US$7 billion annually on its military, or 2.3% of GDP, the 24th-highest in the world in absolute terms, the seventh-highest on a per capita basis, and the second-highest in NATO after the United States. Who acts: Greece. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Greece» with its dependency tree 
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# Greece, sentence 297

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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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Greece spends over US$7 billion annually on its military, or 2.3% of GDP, the 24th-highest in the world in absolute terms, the seventh-highest on a per capita basis, and the second-highest in NATO after the United States.

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**Who acts:** Greece · **What happens:** spend · **To what, where:** military

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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:297
# text = Greece spends over US$7 billion annually on its military, or 2.3% of GDP, the 24th-highest in the world in absolute terms, the seventh-highest on a per capita basis, and the second-highest in NATO after the United States.
1	Greece	Greece	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	spends	spend	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	over	over	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	US	US	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	$	$	SYM	$	_	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	7	7	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	compound	_	_
7	billion	billion	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
8	annually	annually	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	military	military	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
13	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
14	2.3	2.3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	%	%	SYM	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	GDP	GDP	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
20	24th	24th	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Ord	22	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	highest	high	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	2	parataxis	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	absolute	absolute	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	terms	term	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
31	seventh	seventh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	highest	high	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	28	parataxis	_	_
34	on	on	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
35	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
36	per	per	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	compound	_	_
37	capita	capita	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	compound	_	_
38	basis	basis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
42	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	44	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	44	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	highest	high	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	33	conj	_	_
45	in	in	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
46	NATO	NATO	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	44	obl	_	_
47	after	after	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
48	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
49	United	United	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	50	amod	_	_
50	States	State	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	46	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **spend** | present | Greece |  |  |  |  | on military's military *goal*; over US; in absolute terms | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent $=Asset on military=Goal |

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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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