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title: In response, a number of Greek city-states formed the Hellenic Leagu… — Greece · tree and pragmatics
description: In response, a number of Greek city-states formed the Hellenic League in 481 BC, led by Sparta, which was the first recorded union of Greek states since the mythical union of the Trojan War. Who acts: number, Sparta. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Greece» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Greece, sentence 48

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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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In response, a number of Greek city-states formed the Hellenic League in 481 BC, led by Sparta, which was the first recorded union of Greek states since the mythical union of the Trojan War.

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**Who acts:** number, Sparta · **What happens:** form, lead, record, be · **To what, where:** Hellenic League, response, first recorded union

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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 (number, Sparta), 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:48
# text = In response, a number of Greek city-states formed the Hellenic League in 481 BC, led by Sparta, which was the first recorded union of Greek states since the mythical union of the Trojan War.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	response	response	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	Greek	Greek	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
8	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	states	state	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
11	formed	form	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	Hellenic	Hellenic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	League	League	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	481	481	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	obl	_	_
17	BC	BC	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	led	lead	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	parataxis	_	_
20	by	by	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	Sparta	Sparta	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	obl:agent	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
23	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	28	nsubj	_	_
24	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
26	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	28	amod	_	_
27	recorded	record	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	28	amod	_	_
28	union	union	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	appos	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	Greek	Greek	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	states	state	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nmod	_	_
32	since	since	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	mythical	mythical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	union	union	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
38	Trojan	Trojan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	39	compound	_	_
39	War	War	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **form** | past | a number of Greek city states | the Hellenic League |  | response |  | in 481  BC | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location league=Theme |
| 2 | **lead** | participle |  |  |  |  | since the mythical union of the Trojan War | Sparta *obl:agent* | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition |
| 3 | **record** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is a** | past | Sparta | the first recorded union |  |  |  | of Greek states | tree rules |

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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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