Northern Cyprus, sentence 129
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Pakistan and Bangladesh reportedly planned to recognize Northern Cyprus as a sovereign state shortly after its declaration of independence, but were persuaded to withhold recognition under the threat that they would risk losing US foreign aid.
Who acts: Pakistan, country · What happens: plan, recognize, persuade, withhold, risk, lose · To what, where: Northern Cyprus, recognition, threat, US foreign aid, independence
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Northern Cyprus». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Pakistan, country), 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 | Pakistan | Pakistan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 planned | nsubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 Bangladesh | cc |
| 3 | Bangladesh | Bangladesh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Pakistan | conj |
| 4 | reportedly | reportedly | ADV | _ | 5 planned | advmod |
| 5 | planned | plan | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 recognize | mark |
| 7 | recognize | recognize | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 planned | xcomp |
| 8 | Northern | northern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 Cyprus | amod |
| 9 | Cyprus | Cyprus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 recognize | obj |
| 10 | as | as | ADP | _ | 13 state | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 state | det |
| 12 | sovereign | sovereign | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 state | compound |
| 13 | state | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 recognize | obl |
| 14 | shortly | shortly | ADV | _ | 17 declaration | advmod |
| 15 | after | after | ADP | _ | 17 declaration | case |
| 16 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 declaration | nmod:poss |
| 17 | declaration | declaration | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 recognize | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 independence | case |
| 19 | independence | independence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 declaration | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 persuaded | punct |
| 21 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 23 persuaded | cc |
| 22 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 persuaded | aux:pass |
| 23 | persuaded | persuade | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 planned | conj |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 withhold | mark |
| 25 | withhold | withhold | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 persuaded | xcomp |
| 26 | recognition | recognition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 withhold | obj |
| 27 | under | under | ADP | _ | 29 threat | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 threat | det |
| 29 | threat | threat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 withhold | obl |
| 30 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 33 risk | mark |
| 31 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 risk | nsubj |
| 32 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 33 risk | aux |
| 33 | risk | risk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 withhold | advcl |
| 34 | losing | lose | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 33 risk | xcomp |
| 35 | US | US | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 aid | compound |
| 36 | foreign | foreign | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 aid | amod |
| 37 | aid | aid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 losing | obj |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 planned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | plan | past | Pakistan and Bangladesh | reportedly property | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | recognize not said to happen | to-infinitive | Pakistan and Bangladesh not said here | Northern Cyprus | after country's declaration of independence | as a sovereign state | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer cyprus=Stimulus as state=Attribute | ||
| 3 | persuade | past · passive | Pakistan and Bangladesh not said here | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: clause=Result | |||||
| 4 | withhold | to-infinitive | Pakistan and Bangladesh not said here | recognition | the threat | tree rules | |||
| 5 | risk | would | Pakistan | vn risk-94-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 6 | lose | gerund | Pakistan not said here | US foreign aid | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent aid=Eventuality | ||||
| 7 | declare | country | independence | nom declaration «communication transitive»: poss=agent of=patient |
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.
Text: the English Wikipedia, «Northern Cyprus», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. Tree: Mova's own parse, CC BY-SA 4.0 as the text is. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the article read in order, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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