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title: The Greek Cypriot leadership believed that the rights given to Turki… — Cyprus · tree and pragmatics
description: The Greek Cypriot leadership believed that the rights given to Turkish Cypriots under the 1960 constitution were too extensive and designed the Akritas plan, which was aimed at reforming the constitution in favour of Greek Cypriots, persuading the international community about the correctness of the
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# Cyprus, sentence 158

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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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The Greek Cypriot leadership believed that the rights given to Turkish Cypriots under the 1960 constitution were too extensive and designed the Akritas plan, which was aimed at reforming the constitution in favour of Greek Cypriots, persuading the international community about the correctness of the changes and violently subjugating Turkish Cypriots in a few days should they not accept the plan.

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**Who acts:** Greek Cypriot leadership, rights, Cypriots · **What happens:** believe, give, be, design, aim, reform · **To what, where:** rights, Turkish Cypriots, 1960 constitution, Akritas plan, constitution, favour · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Greek Cypriot leadership, rights, Cypriots), 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:158
# text = The Greek Cypriot leadership believed that the rights given to Turkish Cypriots under the 1960 constitution were too extensive and designed the Akritas plan, which was aimed at reforming the constitution in favour of Greek Cypriots, persuading the international community about the correctness of the changes and violently subjugating Turkish Cypriots in a few days should they not accept the plan.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	Greek	Greek	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	Cypriot	Cypriot	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	leadership	leadership	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	believed	believe	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	rights	right	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
9	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	Turkish	Turkish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	Cypriots	cypriot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
13	under	under	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	1960	1960	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
16	constitution	constitution	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
17	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
18	too	too	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	extensive	extensive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	ccomp	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	designed	design	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	Akritas	Akritas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	plan	plan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	28	nsubj:pass	_	_
27	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux:pass	_	_
28	aimed	aim	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	acl:relcl	_	_
29	at	at	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
30	reforming	reform	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	28	advcl	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	constitution	constitution	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
33	in	in	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	favour	favour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	Greek	Greek	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	Cypriots	cypriot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
39	persuading	persuade	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	30	conj	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
41	international	international	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
42	community	community	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obj	_	_
43	about	about	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	correctness	correctness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	_
46	of	of	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
47	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
48	changes	change	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	45	nmod	_	_
49	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	51	cc	_	_
50	violently	violently	ADV	RB	_	51	advmod	_	_
51	subjugating	subjugate	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	30	conj	_	_
52	Turkish	Turkish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	53	amod	_	_
53	Cypriots	cypriot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	51	obj	_	_
54	in	in	ADP	IN	_	57	case	_	_
55	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	57	det	_	_
56	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	57	amod	_	_
57	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	51	obl	_	_
58	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	61	aux	_	_
59	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	61	nsubj	_	_
60	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	61	advmod	_	_
61	accept	accept	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	conj	_	_
62	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	63	det	_	_
63	plan	plan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	61	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
64	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **believe** | past | the Greek Cypriot leadership |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **give** | participle |  | the rights *not said here* | Turkish Cypriots | the 1960 constitution |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to cypriot=Recipient |
| 3 | **is** | past | the rights |  |  |  |  | extensive *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **design** | past | the Greek Cypriot leadership *not said here* | the Akritas plan |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plan=Result |
| 5 | **aim** | past · passive |  | the Akritas plan |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 6 | **reform** | gerund |  | the constitution |  | favour of Greek Cypriots |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent constitution=Patient |
| 7 | **persuade** | gerund |  | the international community |  |  |  | about the correctness of the changes | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent community=Patient |
| 8 | **subjugate** | gerund |  | Turkish Cypriots |  |  | day | violently *property* | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cypriot=Patient |
| 9 | **not** **accept** | should | Cypriots *= cypriot* | the plan |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plan=Theme |
| 10 | **favour** |  |  | Greek Cypriots |  |  |  |  | nom favour «feeling transitive»: of=patient |

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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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