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title: Ancient Greek sculpture was composed almost entirely of workable and… — Greece · tree and pragmatics
description: Ancient Greek sculpture was composed almost entirely of workable and durable materials, marble or bronze, bronze becoming the favoured medium for major works by the early 5th century, while chryselephantine sculptures, made largely of gold and ivory and used for temple cult images and luxury works, 
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# Greece, sentence 530

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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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Ancient Greek sculpture was composed almost entirely of workable and durable materials, marble or bronze, bronze becoming the favoured medium for major works by the early 5th century, while chryselephantine sculptures, made largely of gold and ivory and used for temple cult images and luxury works, were much rarer.

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**Who acts:** bronze, workable materials · **What happens:** compose, become, favour, make, use, be · **To what, where:** Ancient Greek sculpture, favoured medium, gold

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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 (bronze, workable materials), 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:530
# text = Ancient Greek sculpture was composed almost entirely of workable and durable materials, marble or bronze, bronze becoming the favoured medium for major works by the early 5th century, while chryselephantine sculptures, made largely of gold and ivory and used for temple cult images and luxury works, were much rarer.
1	Ancient	ancient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	Greek	Greek	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	sculpture	sculpture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	composed	compose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	entirely	entirely	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
9	workable	workable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	durable	durable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	conj	_	_
12	materials	material	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	marble	marble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
15	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	bronze	bronze	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	bronze	bronze	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	appos	_	_
19	becoming	become	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	18	acl	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	favoured	favour	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	amod	_	_
22	medium	medium	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	xcomp	_	_
23	for	for	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	major	major	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	works	work	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	_
26	by	by	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
28	early	early	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
29	5th	5th	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Ord	30	amod	_	_
30	century	century	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
32	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
33	chryselephantine	chryselephantine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	_
34	sculptures	sculpture	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
36	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl	_	_
37	largely	largely	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obj	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
41	ivory	ivory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	conj	_	_
42	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
43	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	36	conj	_	_
44	for	for	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
45	temple	temple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	compound	_	_
46	cult	cult	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	compound	_	_
47	images	image	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	43	obl	_	_
48	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	50	cc	_	_
49	luxury	luxury	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	50	amod	_	_
50	works	work	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	47	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	54	punct	_	_
52	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	54	cop	_	_
53	much	much	ADV	RB	_	54	advmod	_	_
54	rarer	rare	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	5	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **compose** | past · passive |  | Ancient Greek sculpture |  |  |  | of workable materials and marble or bronze and chryselephantine sculptures; entirely *property* | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Result |
| 2 | **become** | gerund | bronze *not said here* | the favoured medium |  |  | century | for major works | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **favour** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **make** | participle | workable materials and marble or bronze and chryselephantine sculptures *not said here* | gold and ivory |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset gold=Product |
| 5 | **use** | participle | workable materials and marble or bronze and chryselephantine sculptures *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for cult images and luxury works | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | rare *property* | 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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