Cyprus, sentence 284
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.
While until 2016 the armed forces were mainly conscript based, since then a large professional enlisted institution has been adopted (ΣΥΟΠ), which combined with the reduction of conscript service produces an approximate 3:1 ratio between conscript and professional enlisted.
Who acts: armed forces, ΣΥΟΠ · What happens: be, base, enlist, adopt, combine, produce · To what, where: large professional enlisted institution, approximate 3:1 ratio, conscript service
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 (armed forces, ΣΥΟΠ), 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 | While | while | SCONJ | _ | 3 2016 | mark |
| 2 | until | until | ADP | _ | 3 2016 | case |
| 3 | 2016 | 2016 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 forces | det |
| 5 | armed | armed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 forces | amod |
| 6 | forces | force | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 conscript | nsubj |
| 7 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 conscript | cop |
| 8 | mainly | mainly | ADV | _ | 9 conscript | advmod |
| 9 | conscript | conscript | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 2016 | conj |
| 10 | based | base | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 adopted | advcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 adopted | punct |
| 12 | since | since | SCONJ | _ | 21 adopted | mark |
| 13 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 21 adopted | advmod |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 institution | det |
| 15 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 institution | amod |
| 16 | professional | professional | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 institution | amod |
| 17 | enlisted | enlist | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 institution | amod |
| 18 | institution | institution | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 adopted | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 adopted | aux |
| 20 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 21 adopted | aux:pass |
| 21 | adopted | adopt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 conscript | parataxis |
| 22 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 23 ΣΥΟΠ | punct |
| 23 | ΣΥΟΠ | ΣΥΟΠ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 produces | nsubj |
| 24 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 23 ΣΥΟΠ | punct |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 combined | punct |
| 26 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 combined | nsubj |
| 27 | combined | combine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 ΣΥΟΠ | acl:relcl |
| 28 | with | with | ADP | _ | 30 reduction | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 reduction | det |
| 30 | reduction | reduction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 combined | obl |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 service | case |
| 32 | conscript | conscript | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 service | compound |
| 33 | service | service | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 reduction | nmod |
| 34 | produces | produce | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 adopted | parataxis |
| 35 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 ratio | det |
| 36 | approximate | approximate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 ratio | amod |
| 37 | 3:1 | 3:1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 38 ratio | nummod |
| 38 | ratio | ratio | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 produces | obj |
| 39 | between | between | ADP | _ | 43 enlisted | mark |
| 40 | conscript | conscript | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 enlisted | amod |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 professional | cc |
| 42 | professional | professional | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 conscript | conj |
| 43 | enlisted | enlist | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 38 ratio | advcl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 2016 | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the armed forces | conscript, mainly property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | base | participle | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | enlist | participle | vn volunteer-95.4-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | adopt | present · perfect · passive | a large professional enlisted institution | then | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 5 | combine | past | ΣΥΟΠ | with the reduction of conscript service | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient with reduction=Co-Patient | ||||
| 6 | produce | present | ΣΥΟΠ | a approximate 3:1 ratio | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ratio=Result | ||||
| 7 | enlist | participle | ΣΥΟΠ not said here | vn volunteer-95.4-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 9 | reduce | conscript service | nom reduction «act 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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