Nicosia, sentence 203
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.
The board consists of three members nominated by the council of each municipality, together with three members appointed by the government, who are usually the District Officer of Nicosia District, who chairs the board, the Accountant General, and the Director of the Water Department.
Who acts: board, three members, District Officer · What happens: consist, nominate, appoint, be, chair · To what, where: three members, District Officer, board
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 (board, three members, District Officer), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 board | det |
| 2 | board | board | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 consists | nsubj |
| 3 | consists | consist | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 members | case |
| 5 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 members | nummod |
| 6 | members | member | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 consists | obl |
| 7 | nominated | nominate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 members | acl |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 council | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 council | det |
| 10 | council | council | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 nominated | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 municipality | case |
| 12 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 municipality | det |
| 13 | municipality | municipality | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 council | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 members | punct |
| 15 | together | together | ADV | _ | 18 members | advmod |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 members | case |
| 17 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 members | nummod |
| 18 | members | member | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 consists | advcl |
| 19 | appointed | appoint | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 members | acl |
| 20 | by | by | ADP | _ | 22 government | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 government | det |
| 22 | government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 appointed | obl:agent |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 Officer | punct |
| 24 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 29 Officer | nsubj |
| 25 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 Officer | cop |
| 26 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 29 Officer | advmod |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 Officer | det |
| 28 | District | District | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 Officer | compound |
| 29 | Officer | Officer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 members | appos |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 District | case |
| 31 | Nicosia | Nicosia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 District | compound |
| 32 | District | District | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 Officer | nmod |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 chairs | punct |
| 34 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 35 chairs | nsubj |
| 35 | chairs | chair | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 Officer | acl:relcl |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 board | det |
| 37 | board | board | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 chairs | obj |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 General | punct |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 General | det |
| 40 | Accountant | Accountant | PROPN | Number=Sing | 41 General | compound |
| 41 | General | General | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 Officer | conj |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 49 Department | punct |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 49 Department | cc |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 Director | det |
| 45 | Director | director | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 Department | nsubj |
| 46 | of | of | ADP | _ | 49 Department | case |
| 47 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 49 Department | det |
| 48 | Water | Water | PROPN | Number=Sing | 49 Department | compound |
| 49 | Department | Department | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 consists | parataxis |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 consists | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | consist | present | the board | of three members; the Water Department the Director parataxis | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | nominate | participle | three members not said here | by the council of each municipality | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | appoint | participle | three members not said here | the government obl:agent | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | is a | present | three members | the District Officer and the Accountant General | of Nicosia District; the Accountant General conj; usually property | tree rules | |||
| 5 | chair | present | the District Officer and the Accountant General | the board | 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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