North Nicosia, sentence 111
From Wikipedia, «North 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 economy in the walled city has stagnated through the 2000s and 2010s, with the central Municipal Market losing its popularity, even though it has started to receive investment as of 2014 and programs have been put to place to reinvigorate the region with cultural activities being organised.
Who acts: central Municipal Market, region · What happens: wall, stagnate, lose, start, receive, put · To what, where: economy, 2000s, popularity, investment, programs, region
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «North Nicosia». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (central Municipal Market, region), 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 economy | det |
| 2 | economy | economy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 stagnated | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 city | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 city | det |
| 5 | walled | wall | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 city | amod |
| 6 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 economy | nmod |
| 7 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 stagnated | aux |
| 8 | stagnated | stagnate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | through | through | ADP | _ | 11 2000s | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 2000s | det |
| 11 | 2000s | 2000 | NOUN | Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card | 8 stagnated | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 2010s | cc |
| 13 | 2010s | 2010 | NOUN | Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card | 11 2000s | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 losing | punct |
| 15 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 20 losing | mark |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Market | det |
| 17 | central | central | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 Market | amod |
| 18 | Municipal | Municipal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Market | compound |
| 19 | Market | Market | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 losing | nsubj |
| 20 | losing | lose | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 stagnated | advcl |
| 21 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 popularity | nmod:poss |
| 22 | popularity | popularity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 losing | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 started | punct |
| 24 | even | even | ADV | _ | 28 started | advmod |
| 25 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 28 started | mark |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 started | nsubj:pass |
| 27 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 started | aux |
| 28 | started | start | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 stagnated | parataxis |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 receive | mark |
| 30 | receive | receive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 started | xcomp |
| 31 | investment | investment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 receive | obj |
| 32 | as | as | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 34 2014 | case |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 as | fixed |
| 34 | 2014 | 2014 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 30 receive | obl |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 put | cc |
| 36 | programs | program | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 put | nsubj:pass |
| 37 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 39 put | aux |
| 38 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 39 put | aux:pass |
| 39 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 started | conj |
| 40 | to | to | ADP | _ | 41 place | case |
| 41 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 put | obl |
| 42 | to | to | PART | _ | 43 reinvigorate | mark |
| 43 | reinvigorate | reinvigorate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 39 put | advcl |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 region | det |
| 45 | region | region | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 reinvigorate | obj |
| 46 | with | with | ADP | _ | 48 activities | case |
| 47 | cultural | cultural | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 48 activities | amod |
| 48 | activities | activity | NOUN | Number=Plur | 50 organised | obl |
| 49 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 50 organised | cop |
| 50 | organised | organised | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 region | acl:relcl |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 stagnated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wall | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | stagnate | present · perfect · passive | the economy in the walled city | the 2000s and 2010s | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | lose | gerund | the central Municipal Market | economy's popularity | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent popularity=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | start | present · perfect · passive | economy | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | receive | to-infinitive | investment | as 2014 | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent investment=Theme | ||||
| 6 | put | present · perfect · passive | programs | to place | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: subject=Goal | ||||
| 7 | reinvigorate | to-infinitive | the region | tree rules | |||||
| 8 | is | gerund | the region not said here | with cultural activities; organised property | 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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