Cyprus, sentence 252
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 1960 Constitution provided for a presidential system of government with independent executive, legislative and judicial branches as well as a complex system of checks and balances including a weighted power-sharing ratio designed to protect the interests of the Turkish Cypriots.
Who acts: 1960 Constitution · What happens: provide, include, weight, share, design, protect · To what, where: weighted sharing ratio, interests, Turkish Cypriots
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 (1960 Constitution), 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 | 3 Constitution | det |
| 2 | 1960 | 1960 | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Constitution | compound |
| 3 | Constitution | Constitution | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 provided | nsubj |
| 4 | provided | provide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 system | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 system | det |
| 7 | presidential | presidential | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 system | amod |
| 8 | system | system | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 provided | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 government | case |
| 10 | government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 system | nmod |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 branches | case |
| 12 | independent | independent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 branches | amod |
| 13 | executive | executive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 branches | amod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 legislative | punct |
| 15 | legislative | legislative | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 executive | conj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 judicial | cc |
| 17 | judicial | judicial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 executive | conj |
| 18 | branches | branch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 provided | obl |
| 19 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=CCONJ | 24 system | cc |
| 20 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 19 as | fixed |
| 21 | as | as | ADP | _ | 19 as | fixed |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 system | det |
| 23 | complex | complex | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 system | compound |
| 24 | system | system | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 provided | conj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 checks | case |
| 26 | checks | check | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 system | nmod |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 balances | cc |
| 28 | balances | balance | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 checks | conj |
| 29 | including | include | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 35 ratio | case |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 ratio | det |
| 31 | weighted | weight | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 35 ratio | amod |
| 32 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 sharing | compound |
| 33 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 32 power | punct |
| 34 | sharing | share | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 35 ratio | amod |
| 35 | ratio | ratio | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 checks | nmod |
| 36 | designed | design | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 35 ratio | acl |
| 37 | to | to | PART | _ | 38 protect | mark |
| 38 | protect | protect | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 36 designed | advcl |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 interests | det |
| 40 | interests | interest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 protect | obj |
| 41 | of | of | ADP | _ | 44 Cypriots | case |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 Cypriots | det |
| 43 | Turkish | Turkish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 Cypriots | amod |
| 44 | Cypriots | cypriot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 interests | nmod |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 provided | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | provide | past | the 1960 Constitution | for a presidential system of government; with independent executive branches; a complex system of checks include a weighted sharing ratio and balances conj | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-2 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent for system=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | include | gerund | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | weight | participle | vn equip-13.4.2-1-1 «NP.theme V NP»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | share | gerund | power compound | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | design | participle | a weighted sharing ratio not said here | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | protect | to-infinitive | the interests of the Turkish Cypriots | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent interest=Beneficiary | |||||
| 7 | interest | the Turkish Cypriots | nom interest «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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