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title: Notably, Crete remained under Venetian rule until 1669, and the Ioni… — Greece · tree and pragmatics
description: Notably, Crete remained under Venetian rule until 1669, and the Ionian Islands were governed by Venice until 1797. Who acts: Crete, Venice. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Greece» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Greece, sentence 97

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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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Notably, Crete remained under Venetian rule until 1669, and the Ionian Islands were governed by Venice until 1797.

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**Who acts:** Crete, Venice · **What happens:** remain, govern · **To what, where:** Venetian rule, Ionian Islands

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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 (Crete, 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:97
# text = Notably, Crete remained under Venetian rule until 1669, and the Ionian Islands were governed by Venice until 1797.
1	Notably	notably	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	Crete	Crete	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	remained	remain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	under	under	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	Venetian	venetian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	rule	rule	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	until	until	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	1669	1669	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	Ionian	Ionian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	Islands	Island	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	governed	govern	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
17	by	by	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	Venice	Venice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
19	until	until	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	1797	1797	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **remain** | past | Crete |  |  | Venetian rule | until 1669 | notably *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under rule=Location |
| 2 | **govern** | past · passive | Venice | the Ionian Islands |  |  | until 1797 |  | vn supervision-95.2.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |

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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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