North Nicosia, sentence 122
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.
Students from different backgrounds in the universities celebrate their national festivals with activities, at which their national dances and traditions are performed.
Who acts: Students · What happens: celebrate, perform, dance · To what, where: national festivals, national dances
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 (Students), 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 | Students | student | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 celebrate | nsubj |
| 2 | from | from | ADP | _ | 4 backgrounds | case |
| 3 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 backgrounds | amod |
| 4 | backgrounds | background | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Students | nmod |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 universities | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 universities | det |
| 7 | universities | university | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 backgrounds | nmod |
| 8 | celebrate | celebrate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 festivals | nmod:poss |
| 10 | national | national | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 festivals | amod |
| 11 | festivals | festival | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 celebrate | obj |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 activities | case |
| 13 | activities | activity | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 celebrate | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 performed | punct |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 which | case |
| 16 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 performed | obl |
| 17 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 dances | nmod:poss |
| 18 | national | national | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 dances | amod |
| 19 | dances | dance | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 performed | nsubj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 traditions | cc |
| 21 | traditions | tradition | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 dances | conj |
| 22 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 performed | aux:pass |
| 23 | performed | perform | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 celebrate | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 celebrate | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | celebrate | present | Students from different backgrounds in the universities | Students's national festivals | with activities | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent festival=Theme | |||
| 2 | perform | present · passive | Students's national dances and traditions | which obl | vn performance-26.7 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | dance | Students = student | nom dance «communication transitive»: 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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