Cyprus, sentence 160
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.
Intercommunal violence erupted on 21 December 1963, when two Turkish Cypriots were killed at an incident involving the Greek Cypriot police.
Who acts: incident · What happens: erupt, kill, involve · To what, where: Intercommunal violence, 21, two Turkish Cypriots, incident, Cypriot police
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 (incident), 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 | Intercommunal | intercommunal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 violence | amod |
| 2 | violence | violence | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | erupted | erupt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 violence | acl |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 21 | case |
| 5 | 21 | 21 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 erupted | obl |
| 6 | December | December | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 21 | nmod:unmarked |
| 7 | 1963 | 1963 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 21 | flat |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 killed | punct |
| 9 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 14 killed | mark |
| 10 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 Cypriots | nummod |
| 11 | Turkish | Turkish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 Cypriots | amod |
| 12 | Cypriots | cypriot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 killed | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 killed | aux:pass |
| 14 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 violence | acl |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 incident | case |
| 16 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 incident | det |
| 17 | incident | incident | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 killed | obl |
| 18 | involving | involve | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 incident | acl |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 police | det |
| 20 | Greek | Greek | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Cypriot | compound |
| 21 | Cypriot | Cypriot | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 police | compound |
| 22 | police | police | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 involving | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 violence | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | erupt | participle | Intercommunal violence not said here | 21 December | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on 21=Location | ||||
| 2 | kill | past · passive | two Turkish Cypriots | a incident | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | involve | gerund | a incident not said here | the Cypriot police | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent police=Theme |
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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