Nicosia, sentence 201
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.
Instead these services were the Nicosia District Local Government Organisation (NDLGO) was established to administer water supply, sewage and storm-drain water, development licensing and solid waste across the Nicosia District.
Who acts: Nicosia District, development · What happens: be, establish, administer, license · To what, where: Local Government Organisation, water supply, Nicosia District
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 (Nicosia District, development), 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 | Instead | instead | ADV | _ | 3 services | case |
| 2 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 3 services | det |
| 3 | services | service | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 Organisation | obl |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 Organisation | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Organisation | det |
| 6 | Nicosia | Nicosia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 District | compound |
| 7 | District | District | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Organisation | nsubj |
| 8 | Local | local | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 Organisation | amod |
| 9 | Government | Government | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Organisation | compound |
| 10 | Organisation | organisation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 established | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 12 NDLGO | punct |
| 12 | NDLGO | NDLGO | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Organisation | appos |
| 13 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 12 NDLGO | punct |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 established | aux:pass |
| 15 | established | establish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 administer | mark |
| 17 | administer | administer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 established | xcomp |
| 18 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 supply | compound |
| 19 | supply | supply | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 administer | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 sewage | punct |
| 21 | sewage | sewage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 supply | conj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 water | cc |
| 23 | storm | storm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 water | compound |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 storm | punct |
| 25 | drain | drain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 water | compound |
| 26 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 supply | conj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 development | punct |
| 28 | development | development | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 supply | conj |
| 29 | licensing | license | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 28 development | acl |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 waste | cc |
| 31 | solid | solid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 waste | amod |
| 32 | waste | waste | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 supply | conj |
| 33 | across | across | ADP | _ | 36 District | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 District | det |
| 35 | Nicosia | Nicosia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 District | compound |
| 36 | District | District | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 administer | obl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 established | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Nicosia District | the Local Government Organisation | instead this services; NDLGO appos | tree rules | |||
| 2 | establish | past · passive | the Local Government Organisation | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | administer | to-infinitive | water supply and sewage and storm drain water and development and solid waste | the Nicosia District | vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent supply=Theme | ||||
| 4 | license | gerund | development not said here | vn patent-101 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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