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title: These islands were subsequently ceded to French and later British co… — Greece · tree and pragmatics
description: These islands were subsequently ceded to French and later British control. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Greece» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Greece, sentence 98

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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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These islands were subsequently ceded to French and later British control.

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**What happens:** cede · **To what, where:** islands, French

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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: 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:98
# text = These islands were subsequently ceded to French and later British control.
1	These	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	islands	island	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
4	subsequently	subsequently	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	ceded	cede	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	French	French	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	10	advmod	_	_
10	British	British	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	control	control	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cede** | past · passive |  | this islands | French and British control |  |  | subsequently *property* | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: subject=Theme to french=Goal |

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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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