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title: Greece was accepted into the Economic and Monetary Union of the Euro… — Greece · tree and pragmatics
description: Greece was accepted into the Economic and Monetary Union of the European Union in June 2000, and in January 2001 adopted the euro as its currency, replacing the Greek drachma. Who acts: Monetary Union. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Greece» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Greece, sentence 317

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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 was accepted into the Economic and Monetary Union of the European Union in June 2000, and in January 2001 adopted the euro as its currency, replacing the Greek drachma.

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**Who acts:** Monetary Union · **What happens:** accept, adopt, replace · **To what, where:** Greece, Economic, euro, Greek drachma

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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 (Monetary Union), 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:317
# text = Greece was accepted into the Economic and Monetary Union of the European Union in June 2000, and in January 2001 adopted the euro as its currency, replacing the Greek drachma.
1	Greece	Greece	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	accepted	accept	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	into	into	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Economic	economic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	obl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	Monetary	Monetary	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	Union	Union	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl:agent	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	European	European	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	Union	Union	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	June	June	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
16	2000	2000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	15	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	January	January	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
21	2001	2001	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	20	nmod:unmarked	_	_
22	adopted	adopt	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	euro	euro	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	as	as	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	currency	currency	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
29	replacing	replace	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	22	advcl	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	Greek	Greek	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	drachma	drachma	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **accept** | past · passive | Monetary Union of the European Union | Greece |  | the Economic | june |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
| 2 | **adopt** | past |  | the euro |  |  | january | as euro's currency | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent euro=Theme as currency=Attribute |
| 3 | **replace** | gerund |  | the Greek drachma |  |  |  |  | vn substitute-13.6.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme drachma=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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