Cyprus, sentence 111
From Wikipedia, «Cyprus», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.
Ottoman rule of Cyprus was at times indifferent, at times oppressive, depending on the temperaments of the sultans and local officials.
Who acts: Ottoman rule, Cyprus · What happens: be, depend, rule
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Cyprus». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ottoman rule, Cyprus), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ottoman | ottoman | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 rule | amod |
| 2 | rule | rule | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 indifferent | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 Cyprus | case |
| 4 | Cyprus | Cyprus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 rule | nmod |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 indifferent | cop |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 times | case |
| 7 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 indifferent | obl |
| 8 | indifferent | indifferent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 times | punct |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 times | case |
| 11 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 oppressive | obl:unmarked |
| 12 | oppressive | oppressive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 indifferent | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 depending | punct |
| 14 | depending | depend | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 indifferent | parataxis |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 temperaments | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 temperaments | det |
| 17 | temperaments | temperament | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 depending | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 sultans | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 sultans | det |
| 20 | sultans | sultan | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 temperaments | nmod |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 officials | cc |
| 22 | local | local | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 officials | amod |
| 23 | officials | official | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 sultans | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 indifferent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Ottoman rule of Cyprus | time | indifferent property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | be | Ottoman rule of Cyprus not said here | time | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | depend | gerund | on the temperaments of the sultans and local officials | vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S_ING»: agent=Agent on temperament=Theme | |||||
| 4 | rule | Cyprus | nom rule «cognition intransitive»: of=agent |
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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