Northern Cyprus, sentence 27
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.
Makarios announced that he would not comply with the decision of the SCCC, whatever it was, and defended his amendments as being necessary "to resolve constitutional deadlocks" as opposed to the stance of the SCCC.
Who acts: Makarios, SCCC · What happens: announce, not comply, defend, be, resolve, oppose · To what, where: amendments, constitutional deadlocks, SCCC · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Makarios, SCCC), 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 | Makarios | Makarios | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 announced | nsubj |
| 2 | announced | announce | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 comply | mark |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 comply | nsubj |
| 5 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 comply | aux |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 comply | advmod |
| 7 | comply | comply | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 announced | ccomp |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 decision | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 decision | det |
| 10 | decision | decision | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 comply | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 SCCC | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 SCCC | det |
| 13 | SCCC | SCCC | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 decision | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 whatever | punct |
| 15 | whatever | whatever | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 decision | conj |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 was | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 whatever | acl:relcl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 defended | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 defended | cc |
| 20 | defended | defend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 announced | conj |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 amendments | nmod:poss |
| 22 | amendments | amendment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 defended | obj |
| 23 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 25 necessary | mark |
| 24 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 25 necessary | cop |
| 25 | necessary | necessary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 defended | advcl |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 necessary | punct |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 resolve | mark |
| 28 | resolve | resolve | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 necessary | advcl |
| 29 | constitutional | constitutional | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 deadlocks | amod |
| 30 | deadlocks | deadlock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 resolve | obj |
| 31 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 30 deadlocks | punct |
| 32 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 33 opposed | mark |
| 33 | opposed | oppose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 resolve | advcl |
| 34 | to | to | ADP | _ | 36 stance | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 stance | det |
| 36 | stance | stance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 opposed | obl |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 SCCC | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 SCCC | det |
| 39 | SCCC | SCCC | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 stance | nmod |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 announced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | announce speech: other | past | Makarios | vn order-58.3 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | not comply | would | Makarios | with the decision of the SCCC whatever | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | defend | past | Makarios not said here | SCCC's amendments | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent amendment=Beneficiary | ||||
| 4 | is | gerund | Makarios not said here | necessary property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | resolve in a quote | to-infinitive | Makarios not said here | constitutional deadlocks | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | oppose | participle | Makarios not said here | to the stance of the SCCC | vn amalgamate-22.2-3 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 7 | decide | the SCCC | nom decision «act transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 8 | amend | SCCC | nom amendment «act 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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