Northern Cyprus, sentence 28
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.
On 25 April 1963, the SCCC decided that Makarios's 13 amendments were illegal.
Who acts: SCCC, 13 amendments, Makarios · What happens: decide, be, amend · 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 (SCCC, 13 amendments, Makarios), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 2 25 | case |
| 2 | 25 | 25 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 decided | obl |
| 3 | April | April | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 1963 | nmod:unmarked |
| 4 | 1963 | 1963 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 25 | conj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 25 | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 SCCC | det |
| 7 | SCCC | SCCC | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 decided | nsubj |
| 8 | decided | decide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 illegal | mark |
| 10 | Makarios | Makarios | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 amendments | nmod:poss |
| 11 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 10 Makarios | case |
| 12 | 13 | 13 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 13 amendments | nummod |
| 13 | amendments | amendment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 illegal | nsubj |
| 14 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 illegal | cop |
| 15 | illegal | illegal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 decided | ccomp |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 decided | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | decide | past | the SCCC | on 25 | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.theme S»: agent=Agent on 25=Topic | ||||
| 2 | is | past | Makarios's 13 amendments | illegal property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | amend | Makarios | 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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