Nicosia, sentence 281
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.
They smashed or threw out Christian items, such as furniture and ornaments in the cathedral and destroyed the choir as well as the nave.
Who acts: soldiers · What happens: smash, throw out, destroy · To what, where: Christian items, cathedral, choir
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 (soldiers), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 smashed | nsubj |
| 2 | smashed | smash | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 4 threw | cc |
| 4 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 smashed | conj |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 4 threw | compound:prt |
| 6 | Christian | Christian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 items | amod |
| 7 | items | item | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 threw | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 furniture | punct |
| 9 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 11 furniture | case |
| 10 | as | as | ADP | _ | 9 such | fixed |
| 11 | furniture | furniture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 items | nmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 ornaments | cc |
| 13 | ornaments | ornament | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 furniture | conj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 cathedral | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 cathedral | det |
| 16 | cathedral | cathedral | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 threw | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 destroyed | cc |
| 18 | destroyed | destroy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 smashed | conj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 choir | det |
| 20 | choir | choir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 destroyed | obj |
| 21 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=ADV | 18 destroyed | advmod |
| 22 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 21 as | fixed |
| 23 | as | as | ADP | _ | 25 nave | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 nave | det |
| 25 | nave | nave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 destroyed | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 smashed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | smash | past | soldiers = soldier | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | throw out | past | soldiers = soldier not said here | Christian items | the cathedral | such furniture and ornaments | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent item=Theme in cathedral=Destination | ||
| 3 | destroy | past | soldiers = soldier not said here | the choir | as the nave | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent choir=Patient |
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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