Cyprus, sentence 40
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.
Ancient authors preserved two different explanations for this name.
Who acts: Ancient authors · What happens: preserve · To what, where: two different explanations
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 (Ancient authors), 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 | Ancient | ancient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 authors | amod |
| 2 | authors | author | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 preserved | nsubj |
| 3 | preserved | preserve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 explanations | nummod |
| 5 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 explanations | amod |
| 6 | explanations | explanation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 preserved | obj |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 name | case |
| 8 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 name | det |
| 9 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 preserved | obl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 preserved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | preserve | past | Ancient authors | two different explanations | for this name | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent explanation=Beneficiary |
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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