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title: The culture of Greece has evolved, beginning in Mycenaean Greece and… — Greece · tree and pragmatics
description: The culture of Greece has evolved, beginning in Mycenaean Greece and continuing into Classical Greece, through the influence of the Roman Empire and its Greek Eastern continuation, the Byzantine Empire. Who acts: influence. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Greece» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Greece, sentence 517

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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 culture of Greece has evolved, beginning in Mycenaean Greece and continuing into Classical Greece, through the influence of the Roman Empire and its Greek Eastern continuation, the Byzantine Empire.

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**Who acts:** influence · **What happens:** evolve, begin, continue · **To what, where:** culture, influence, Mycenaean Greece, Classical Greece

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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 (influence), 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:517
# text = The culture of Greece has evolved, beginning in Mycenaean Greece and continuing into Classical Greece, through the influence of the Roman Empire and its Greek Eastern continuation, the Byzantine Empire.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	culture	culture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Greece	Greece	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	evolved	evolve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	beginning	begin	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	Mycenaean	mycenaean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	Greece	Greece	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	continuing	continue	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	conj	_	_
14	into	into	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	Classical	classical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	Greece	Greece	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	through	through	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	influence	influence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	Roman	Roman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	Empire	Empire	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
26	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
27	Greek	Greek	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
28	Eastern	eastern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	continuation	continuation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	Byzantine	Byzantine	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
33	Empire	Empire	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **evolve** | present · perfect · passive |  | the culture of Greece |  | the influence of the Roman Empire and influence's Greek Eastern continuation and the Byzantine Empire |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **begin** | gerund |  |  |  | Mycenaean Greece |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 3 | **continue** | gerund |  |  |  | Classical Greece |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into greece=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **continue** |  | influence |  |  |  |  |  | nom continuation «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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