Nicosia, sentence 151
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.
A buffer zone was established across the island along the ceasefire line to separate the northern Turkish controlled part of the island, and the south.
Who acts: northern Turkish · What happens: establish, separate, control · To what, where: buffer zone, island, part
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 (northern Turkish), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 zone | det |
| 2 | buffer | buffer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 zone | compound |
| 3 | zone | zone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 established | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 established | aux:pass |
| 5 | established | establish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | across | across | ADP | _ | 8 island | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 island | det |
| 8 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 established | obl |
| 9 | along | along | ADP | _ | 12 line | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 line | det |
| 11 | ceasefire | ceasefire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 line | compound |
| 12 | line | line | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 established | obl |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 separate | mark |
| 14 | separate | separate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 line | acl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Turkish | det |
| 16 | northern | northern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 Turkish | amod |
| 17 | Turkish | Turkish | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 controlled | nsubj |
| 18 | controlled | control | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 separate | ccomp |
| 19 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 controlled | obj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 island | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 island | det |
| 22 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 part | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 south | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 south | cc |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 south | det |
| 26 | south | south | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 established | parataxis |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 established | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | establish | past · passive | a buffer zone | the island | along the ceasefire line; the south parataxis | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||
| 2 | separate | to-infinitive | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | control | past | the northern Turkish | part of the island | vn enforce-63 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=Theme |
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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