Cyprus, sentence 174

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.

The Turkish air force began bombing Greek positions in Cyprus, and hundreds of paratroopers were dropped in the area between Nicosia and Kyrenia, where well-armed Turkish Cypriot enclaves had been long-established; while off the Kyrenia coast, Turkish troop ships landed 6,000 men as well as tanks, trucks and armoured vehicles.

Who acts: Turkish air force, Turkish troop ships · What happens: begin, bomb, drop, establish, land · To what, where: Greek positions, Cyprus, hundreds, area, armed Turkish Cypriot enclaves, 6,000 men

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 (Turkish air force, Turkish troop ships), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 force	det
2	Turkish	Turkish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 force	amod
3	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 force	compound
4	force	force	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 began	nsubj
5	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	bombing	bomb	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 began	xcomp
7	Greek	Greek	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 positions	amod
8	positions	position	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 bombing	obj
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 Cyprus	case
10	Cyprus	Cyprus	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 bombing	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 dropped	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 dropped	cc
13	hundreds	hundred	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 dropped	nsubj:pass
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 paratroopers	case
15	paratroopers	paratrooper	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 hundreds	nmod
16	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 dropped	aux:pass
17	dropped	drop	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 began	parataxis
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 area	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 area	det
20	area	area	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 dropped	obl
21	between	between	ADP	_	22 Nicosia	case
22	Nicosia	Nicosia	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 area	nmod
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 Kyrenia	cc
24	Kyrenia	Kyrenia	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 Nicosia	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 established	punct
26	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	37 established	advmod
27	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	37 established	advmod
28	-	-	PUNCT	_	27 well	punct
29	armed	armed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 enclaves	amod
30	Turkish	Turkish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 enclaves	amod
31	Cypriot	Cypriot	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 enclaves	compound
32	enclaves	enclave	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 established	nsubj:pass
33	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 established	aux
34	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	37 established	aux:pass
35	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 established	amod
36	-	-	PUNCT	_	35 long	punct
37	established	establish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 Nicosia	acl:relcl
38	;	;	PUNCT	_	48 landed	punct
39	while	while	SCONJ	_	48 landed	mark
40	off	off	ADP	_	43 coast	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 coast	det
42	Kyrenia	Kyrenia	PROPN	Number=Sing	43 coast	compound
43	coast	coast	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 landed	obl
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 coast	punct
45	Turkish	Turkish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 ships	amod
46	troop	troop	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 ships	compound
47	ships	ship	NOUN	Number=Plur	48 landed	nsubj
48	landed	land	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 began	parataxis
49	6,000	6000	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	50 men	nummod
50	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	48 landed	obj
51	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=CCONJ	54 tanks	cc
52	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	51 as	fixed
53	as	as	ADP	_	51 as	fixed
54	tanks	tank	NOUN	Number=Plur	48 landed	conj
55	,	,	PUNCT	_	56 trucks	punct
56	trucks	truck	NOUN	Number=Plur	54 tanks	conj
57	and	and	CCONJ	_	59 vehicles	cc
58	armoured	armoured	ADJ	Degree=Pos	59 vehicles	amod
59	vehicles	vehicle	NOUN	Number=Plur	54 tanks	conj
60	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	begin	past	the Turkish air force					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	bomb	gerund	the Turkish air force not said here	Greek positions		Cyprus		vn attack-60.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent position=Patient
3	drop	past · passive		hundreds of paratroopers		the area between Nicosia and Kyrenia		vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in area=Destination
4	establish	past · perfect · passive		armed Turkish Cypriot enclaves			well property	vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
5	land	past	Turkish troop ships		6,000 men		off the Kyrenia coast; tanks and trucks and armoured vehicles conj	vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V ADVP»: agent=Theme man=Destination

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.

Text: the English Wikipedia, «Cyprus», 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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Cyprus/174/

🌲 Cyprus, sentence 174

The tree

Pragmatics

Cyprus, sentence 174