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title: During the 15th to early 19th centuries, while much of mainland Gree… — Greece · tree and pragmatics
description: During the 15th to early 19th centuries, while much of mainland Greece and the Aegean islands fell under Ottoman control, Venice retained several key territories. Who acts: much, Venice. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Greece» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Greece, sentence 96

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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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During the 15th to early 19th centuries, while much of mainland Greece and the Aegean islands fell under Ottoman control, Venice retained several key territories.

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**Who acts:** much, Venice · **What happens:** fall, retain · **To what, where:** Ottoman control, several key territories

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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 (much, Venice), 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:96
# text = During the 15th to early 19th centuries, while much of mainland Greece and the Aegean islands fell under Ottoman control, Venice retained several key territories.
1	During	during	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	15th	15th	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Ord	24	obl	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	early	early	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	19th	19th	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Ord	7	amod	_	_
7	centuries	century	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
9	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
10	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	nsubj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	mainland	mainland	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	Greece	Greece	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	Aegean	aegean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	islands	island	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	_
18	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
19	under	under	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	Ottoman	ottoman	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	control	control	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
23	Venice	Venice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
24	retained	retain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
25	several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
26	key	key	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	territories	territory	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	24	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fall** | past | much of mainland Greece and the Aegean islands |  |  | Ottoman control |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme under control=Location |
| 2 | **retain** | past | Venice | several key territories |  |  | during the 15th to early 19th centuries |  | 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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