Northern Cyprus, sentence 38
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.
Almost immediately, intercommunal violence broke out with a major Greek Cypriot paramilitary attack upon Turkish Cypriots in Nicosia and Larnaca.
Who acts: intercommunal violence · What happens: break out
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 (intercommunal violence), 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 | Almost | almost | ADV | _ | 2 immediately | advmod |
| 2 | immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 6 broke | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 immediately | punct |
| 4 | intercommunal | intercommunal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 violence | amod |
| 5 | violence | violence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 broke | nsubj |
| 6 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | out | out | ADP | _ | 6 broke | compound:prt |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 attack | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 attack | det |
| 10 | major | major | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 attack | amod |
| 11 | Greek | Greek | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 attack | amod |
| 12 | Cypriot | Cypriot | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 attack | compound |
| 13 | paramilitary | paramilitary | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 attack | compound |
| 14 | attack | attack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 broke | obl |
| 15 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 17 Cypriots | case |
| 16 | Turkish | Turkish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 Cypriots | amod |
| 17 | Cypriots | cypriot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 attack | nmod |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 Nicosia | case |
| 19 | Nicosia | Nicosia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Cypriots | nmod |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 Larnaca | cc |
| 21 | Larnaca | Larnaca | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Nicosia | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 broke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | break out | past | intercommunal violence | with a major Greek Cypriot paramilitary attack upon Turkish Cypriots in Nicosia and Larnaca; immediately property | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with attack=Instrument |
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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