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title: The recapture of Constantinople as the imperial capital in 1261 by t… — Greece · tree and pragmatics
description: The recapture of Constantinople as the imperial capital in 1261 by the Empire of Nicaea was accompanied by the empire's recovery of much of the Greek peninsula, while the islands remained under Genoese and Venetian control. Who acts: recovery, islands, Empire. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Greece» with
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# Greece, sentence 92

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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 recapture of Constantinople as the imperial capital in 1261 by the Empire of Nicaea was accompanied by the empire's recovery of much of the Greek peninsula, while the islands remained under Genoese and Venetian control.

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**Who acts:** recovery, islands, Empire · **What happens:** accompany, remain, recapture, recover · **To what, where:** recapture, Genoese control, Constantinople

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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 (recovery, islands, Empire), 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:92
# text = The recapture of Constantinople as the imperial capital in 1261 by the Empire of Nicaea was accompanied by the empire's recovery of much of the Greek peninsula, while the islands remained under Genoese and Venetian control.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	recapture	recapture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Constantinople	Constantinople	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	as	as	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	imperial	imperial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	capital	capital	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	1261	1261	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	nmod	_	_
11	by	by	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	Empire	Empire	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Nicaea	Nicaea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	accompanied	accompany	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
18	by	by	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	empire	empire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	's	's	PART	POS	_	20	case	_	_
22	recovery	recovery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	nmod	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	Greek	Greek	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	peninsula	peninsula	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
30	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	islands	island	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	nsubj	_	_
33	remained	remain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
34	under	under	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
35	Genoese	genoese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
37	Venetian	venetian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	conj	_	_
38	control	control	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **accompany** | past · passive | the empire's recovery of much of the Greek peninsula | the recapture of Constantinople as the imperial capital in 1261 by the Empire of Nicaea |  |  |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
| 2 | **remain** | past | the islands |  |  | Genoese control |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under control=Location |
| 3 | **recapture** |  | the Empire of Nicaea | Constantinople |  |  |  | as the imperial capital in 1261 | nom recapture «act transitive»: of=patient as=obl by=agent |
| 4 | **recover** |  | the empire |  |  |  |  |  | nom recovery «event intransitive»: 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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