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title: Ancient Greek philosophy involved a disposition to value reasoning a… — Greece · tree and pragmatics
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# Greece, sentence 581

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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 philosophy involved a disposition to value reasoning and thinking critically of traditional culture, thus inaugurating the Western intellectual tradition.

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**Who acts:** Ancient Greek philosophy · **What happens:** involve, value, think, inaugurate · **To what, where:** disposition, reasoning, Western intellectual tradition

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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 (Ancient Greek philosophy), 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:581
# text = Ancient Greek philosophy involved a disposition to value reasoning and thinking critically of traditional culture, thus inaugurating the Western intellectual tradition.
1	Ancient	ancient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	Greek	Greek	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	philosophy	philosophy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	involved	involve	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	disposition	disposition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	value	value	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
9	reasoning	reasoning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	thinking	think	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	conj	_	_
12	critically	critically	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	traditional	traditional	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	culture	culture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	inaugurating	inaugurate	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	conj	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
20	Western	western	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
21	intellectual	intellectual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	tradition	tradition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **involve** | past | Ancient Greek philosophy | a disposition |  |  |  |  | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent disposition=Theme |
| 2 | **value** | to-infinitive | Ancient Greek philosophy *not said here* | reasoning |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer reasoning=Stimulus |
| 3 | **think** *speech: other* | gerund | Ancient Greek philosophy *not said here* |  |  |  |  | critically *property* | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **inaugurate** | gerund | Ancient Greek philosophy *not said here* | the Western intellectual tradition |  |  |  | thus *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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