Nicosia, sentence 50
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.
Fearing a hostile reception, the survivors remained at anchor off the coast for a full week until Richard's arrival on 8 May.
Who acts: survivors, Richard · What happens: fear, remain, arrive · To what, where: hostile reception, anchor
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 (survivors, Richard), 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 | Fearing | fear | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 reception | det |
| 3 | hostile | hostile | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 reception | amod |
| 4 | reception | reception | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Fearing | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 remained | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 survivors | det |
| 7 | survivors | survivor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 remained | nsubj |
| 8 | remained | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 reception | acl:relcl |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 anchor | case |
| 10 | anchor | anchor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 remained | obl |
| 11 | off | off | ADP | _ | 13 coast | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 coast | det |
| 13 | coast | coast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 remained | obl |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 week | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 week | det |
| 16 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 week | amod |
| 17 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 remained | obl |
| 18 | until | until | ADP | _ | 21 arrival | case |
| 19 | Richard | Richard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 arrival | nmod:poss |
| 20 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 19 Richard | case |
| 21 | arrival | arrival | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 remained | obl |
| 22 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 8 | case |
| 23 | 8 | 8 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 remained | obl |
| 24 | May | May | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 8 | nmod:unmarked |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Fearing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fear | gerund | a hostile reception | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer reception=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | remain | past | the survivors | a hostile reception not said here | anchor | until Richard's arrival; week | off the coast; on 8 May | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme reception=Attribute | |
| 3 | arrive | Richard | nom arrival «act intransitive»: poss=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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