Nicosia, sentence 120
From Wikipedia, «Nicosia», 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.
This resulted in Turkish Cypriots withdrawing from the government, and following further intercommunal violence in 1964, a number of Turkish Cypriots moved to the Turkish quarter of Nicosia, leading to severe overcrowding.
Who acts: This, Turkish Cypriots · What happens: result, withdraw, follow, move, lead, overcrowd · To what, where: Turkish Cypriots, government, number, Turkish quarter
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Nicosia». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This, Turkish Cypriots), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 resulted | nsubj |
| 2 | resulted | result | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 Cypriots | case |
| 4 | Turkish | Turkish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 Cypriots | amod |
| 5 | Cypriots | cypriot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 resulted | obl |
| 6 | withdrawing | withdraw | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 Cypriots | acl |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 government | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 government | det |
| 9 | government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 withdrawing | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 violence | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 violence | cc |
| 12 | following | follow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 violence | case |
| 13 | further | further | ADV | _ | 14 intercommunal | advmod |
| 14 | intercommunal | intercommunal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 violence | amod |
| 15 | violence | violence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 resulted | obl |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 1964 | case |
| 17 | 1964 | 1964 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 15 violence | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 number | punct |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 number | det |
| 20 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 violence | conj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 Cypriots | case |
| 22 | Turkish | Turkish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 Cypriots | amod |
| 23 | Cypriots | cypriot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 moved | nsubj |
| 24 | moved | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 number | acl:relcl |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 quarter | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 quarter | det |
| 27 | Turkish | Turkish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 quarter | amod |
| 28 | quarter | quarter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 moved | obl |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 Nicosia | case |
| 30 | Nicosia | Nicosia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 quarter | nmod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 leading | punct |
| 32 | leading | lead | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 24 moved | advcl |
| 33 | to | to | ADP | _ | 34 severe | case |
| 34 | severe | severe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 leading | obl |
| 35 | overcrowding | overcrowd | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 34 severe | advcl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 resulted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | result | participle | This | Turkish Cypriots | follow intercommunal violence in 1964 and a number | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in cypriot=Location | |||
| 2 | withdraw | gerund | Turkish Cypriots not said here | the government | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from government=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | move | past | Turkish Cypriots | a number not said here | the Turkish quarter of Nicosia | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent number=Theme to quarter=Trajectory | |||
| 5 | lead | gerund | Turkish Cypriots not said here | to severe | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to severe=Patient | ||||
| 6 | overcrowd | gerund | Turkish Cypriots not said here | tree rules |
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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