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title: Greece achieved a budget surplus in 2013 and returned to growth in 2… — Greece · tree and pragmatics
description: Greece achieved a budget surplus in 2013 and returned to growth in 2014. Who acts: Greece. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Greece» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Greece, sentence 332

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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 achieved a budget surplus in 2013 and returned to growth in 2014.

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**Who acts:** Greece · **What happens:** achieve, return · **To what, where:** budget surplus, 2013, 2014

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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:332
# text = Greece achieved a budget surplus in 2013 and returned to growth in 2014.
1	Greece	Greece	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	achieved	achieve	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	budget	budget	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	surplus	surplus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	2013	2013	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	returned	return	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	growth	growth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	2014	2014	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **achieve** | past | Greece | a budget surplus |  | 2013 |  |  | vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent surplus=Eventuality |
| 2 | **return** | past | Greece *not said here* |  |  | 2014 |  | to growth *result* | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to growth=Result |

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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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