Nicosia, sentence 8
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.
Following the invasion the island was split between Cyprus in the south and a Turkish-occupied zone in the north, with the dividing line running through Nicosia.
Who acts: dividing line · What happens: follow, split, run · To what, where: island, south, Nicosia
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 (dividing line), 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 | Following | follow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 invasion | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 invasion | det |
| 3 | invasion | invasion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 split | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 island | det |
| 5 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 split | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 split | aux:pass |
| 7 | split | split | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | between | between | ADP | _ | 9 Cyprus | case |
| 9 | Cyprus | Cyprus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 split | obl |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 south | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 south | det |
| 12 | south | south | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 split | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 zone | cc |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 zone | det |
| 15 | Turkish | Turkish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 zone | amod |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 Turkish | punct |
| 17 | occupied | occupied | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 zone | amod |
| 18 | zone | zone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 south | conj |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 north | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 north | det |
| 21 | north | north | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 zone | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 line | punct |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 line | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 line | det |
| 25 | dividing | dividing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 line | compound |
| 26 | line | line | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 split | parataxis |
| 27 | running | run | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 26 line | acl |
| 28 | through | through | ADP | _ | 29 Nicosia | case |
| 29 | Nicosia | Nicosia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 running | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 split | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | split | past · passive | the island | the south and a Turkish occupied zone in the north | follow the invasion; between Cyprus; the dividing line parataxis | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||
| 3 | run | gerund | the dividing line not said here | Nicosia | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through nicosia=Trajectory |
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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