--- title: The Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus occupies the northern third… — Cyprus · tree and pragmatics description: The Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus occupies the northern third (34.85%), and the United Nations-controlled Green Line provides a buffer zone that separates the two and covers 2.67% of the island. Who acts: Turkish Republic, controlled Green Line, buffer zone. 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The Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus occupies the northern third (34.85%), and the United Nations-controlled Green Line provides a buffer zone that separates the two and covers 2.67% of the island. **Who acts:** Turkish Republic, controlled Green Line, buffer zone · **What happens:** occupy, control, provide, separate, cover · **To what, where:** northern third, United Nations, two 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 (Turkish Republic, controlled Green Line, buffer zone), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = wikipedia:Cyprus:228 # text = The Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus occupies the northern third (34.85%), and the United Nations-controlled Green Line provides a buffer zone that separates the two and covers 2.67% of the island. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 Turkish Turkish ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 Republic Republic PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 Northern Northern ADJ NNP Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 Cyprus Cyprus PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 7 occupies occupy VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 northern northern ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 third third NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 11 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 13 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 12 34.85 34.85 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 13 nummod _ SpaceAfter=No 13 % % SYM NN Number=Sing 10 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 14 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 13 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 United United PROPN NNP _ 19 compound _ _ 19 Nations Nation PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 24 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 20 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 19 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 21 controlled control VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 23 amod _ _ 22 Green green ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 Line line NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 24 provides provide VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 26 buffer buffer NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 compound _ _ 27 zone zone NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 28 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 29 nsubj _ _ 29 separates separate VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 acl:relcl _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 29 obj _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 33 covers cover VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 conj _ _ 34 2.67 2.67 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 35 nummod _ SpaceAfter=No 35 % % SYM NN Number=Sing 33 obj _ _ 36 of of ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 island island NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 39 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **occupy** | present | the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus | the northern third | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus third=Experiencer | | 2 | **control** | participle | | | | | | | vn enforce-63 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **provide** | present | controlled Green Line | the United Nations | | | | a buffer zone *obj* | vn ensure-99 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition zone=Theme | | 4 | **separate** | present | a buffer zone | the two | | | | | vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent two=Patient | | 5 | **cover** | present | a buffer zone *not said here* | | | | | | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme %=Destination | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 227](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Cyprus/227/) - next →: [sentence 229](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Cyprus/229/) - ↑ back to [Cyprus](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Cyprus/)