Northern Cyprus, sentence 208
From Wikipedia, «Northern Cyprus», 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.
They were first opened in the 1990s, and have since become very popular with visitors from Turkey and the rest of the island, where casinos are banned.
What happens: open, become, ban · To what, where: tourism, 1990s, casinos
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: 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 opened | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 opened | aux:pass |
| 3 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 opened | advmod |
| 4 | opened | open | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 1990s | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 1990s | det |
| 7 | 1990s | 1990s | NOUN | Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card | 4 opened | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 become | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 become | cc |
| 10 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 become | aux |
| 11 | since | since | ADV | _ | 12 become | advmod |
| 12 | become | become | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 opened | conj |
| 13 | very | very | ADV | _ | 14 popular | advmod |
| 14 | popular | popular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 become | xcomp |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 visitors | case |
| 16 | visitors | visitor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 popular | obl |
| 17 | from | from | ADP | _ | 18 Turkey | case |
| 18 | Turkey | Turkey | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 visitors | nmod |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 rest | cc |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 rest | det |
| 21 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 Turkey | conj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 island | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 island | det |
| 24 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 rest | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 banned | punct |
| 26 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 29 banned | advmod |
| 27 | casinos | casino | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 banned | nsubj:pass |
| 28 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 banned | aux:pass |
| 29 | banned | ban | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 island | acl:relcl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 opened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | open | past · passive | tourism | the 1990s | first property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: subject=Theme in 1990s=Location | |||
| 2 | become | present · perfect | popular, since property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | ban | present · passive | casinos | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
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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