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title: Cyprus was placed under British administration in 1878 pursuant to t… — Cyprus · tree and pragmatics
description: Cyprus was placed under British administration in 1878 pursuant to the Cyprus Convention and formally annexed by the United Kingdom in 1914. Who acts: British administration. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Cyprus» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Cyprus, sentence 10

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From Wikipedia, [«Cyprus»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyprus), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.

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Cyprus was placed under British administration in 1878 pursuant to the Cyprus Convention and formally annexed by the United Kingdom in 1914.

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**Who acts:** British administration · **What happens:** place, annex · **To what, where:** Cyprus, 1878, 1914

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Cyprus». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (British administration), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = wikipedia:Cyprus:10
# text = Cyprus was placed under British administration in 1878 pursuant to the Cyprus Convention and formally annexed by the United Kingdom in 1914.
1	Cyprus	Cyprus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	placed	place	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	under	under	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	British	British	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	administration	administration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl:agent	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	1878	1878	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	obl	_	_
9	pursuant	pursuant	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	Cyprus	Cyprus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	Convention	Convention	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	formally	formally	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	annexed	annex	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
17	by	by	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	United	United	PROPN	NNP	_	20	flat	_	_
20	Kingdom	Kingdom	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	1914	1914	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **place** | past · passive | British administration | Cyprus |  | 1878 |  | to the Cyprus Convention | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent subject=Theme in 1878=Destination |
| 2 | **annex** | participle | British administration *not said here* |  |  | 1914 |  | by the United Kingdom; formally *property* | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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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**Text:** the English Wikipedia, «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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