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title: The University of Constantinople was Christian Europe's first secula… — Greece · tree and pragmatics
description: The University of Constantinople was Christian Europe's first secular institution of higher learning, and by some measures was the world's first university. Who acts: University. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Greece» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Greece, sentence 485

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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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The University of Constantinople was Christian Europe's first secular institution of higher learning, and by some measures was the world's first university.

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**Who acts:** University · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** first secular institution, first university

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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 (University), 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:485
# text = The University of Constantinople was Christian Europe's first secular institution of higher learning, and by some measures was the world's first university.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	University	University	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Constantinople	Constantinople	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
6	Christian	Christian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	Europe	Europe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	's	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	11	amod	_	_
10	secular	secular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	institution	institution	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	higher	high	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	14	amod	_	_
14	learning	learning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
17	by	by	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	19	det	_	_
19	measures	measure	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	's	's	PART	POS	_	22	case	_	_
24	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	25	amod	_	_
25	university	university	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | the University of Constantinople | Christian Europe's first secular institution and the world's first university |  |  |  | of higher learning; Christian Europe *nmod:poss* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | past | the University of Constantinople *not said here* | the world's first university |  |  |  | by some measures; the world *nmod:poss* | 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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