Nicosia, sentence 341
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 first railway line on the island was the Cyprus Government Railway which operated from 1905 to 1951.
Who acts: first railway line, Government Railway · What happens: be, operate · To what, where: Government Railway, 1905
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 (first railway line, Government Railway), 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 | 4 line | det |
| 2 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 line | amod |
| 3 | railway | railway | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 line | compound |
| 4 | line | line | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 Railway | nsubj |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 island | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 island | det |
| 7 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 line | nmod |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 Railway | cop |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Railway | det |
| 10 | Cyprus | Cyprus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Government | compound |
| 11 | Government | Government | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Railway | compound |
| 12 | Railway | railway | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 13 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 operated | nsubj |
| 14 | operated | operate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 Railway | acl:relcl |
| 15 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 1905 | case |
| 16 | 1905 | 1905 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 14 operated | obl |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 1951 | case |
| 18 | 1951 | 1951 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 16 1905 | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 Railway | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the first railway line on the island | the Government Railway | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | operate | past | the Government Railway | 1905 to 1951 | vn function-105.2.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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