Nicosia, sentence 144
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.
Adjacent streets lead to the most lively part of the old city characterised by narrow streets, boutiques, bars and art cafés.
Who acts: Adjacent streets · What happens: lead, characteris · To what, where: old city
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 (Adjacent streets), 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 | Adjacent | adjacent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 streets | amod |
| 2 | streets | street | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 lead | nsubj |
| 3 | lead | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 part | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 part | det |
| 6 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 7 lively | advmod |
| 7 | lively | lively | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 part | amod |
| 8 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lead | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 city | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 city | det |
| 11 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 city | amod |
| 12 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 part | nmod |
| 13 | characterised | characteris | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 city | acl |
| 14 | by | by | ADP | _ | 16 streets | case |
| 15 | narrow | narrow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 streets | amod |
| 16 | streets | street | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 characterised | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 boutiques | punct |
| 18 | boutiques | boutique | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 streets | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 bars | punct |
| 20 | bars | bar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 streets | conj |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 cafés | cc |
| 22 | art | art | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 cafés | compound |
| 23 | cafés | café | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 streets | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 lead | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lead | present | Adjacent streets | to the lively part of the old city | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to part=Patient | ||||
| 2 | characteris | participle | the old city not said here | by narrow streets and boutiques and bars and art cafés | 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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