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title: The 1960 Constitution provided for a presidential system of governme… — Cyprus · tree and pragmatics
description: The 1960 Constitution provided for a presidential system of government with independent executive, legislative and judicial branches as well as a complex system of checks and balances including a weighted power-sharing ratio designed to protect the interests of the Turkish Cypriots. Who acts: 1960 C
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# Cyprus, sentence 252

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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 1960 Constitution provided for a presidential system of government with independent executive, legislative and judicial branches as well as a complex system of checks and balances including a weighted power-sharing ratio designed to protect the interests of the Turkish Cypriots.

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**Who acts:** 1960 Constitution · **What happens:** provide, include, weight, share, design, protect · **To what, where:** weighted sharing ratio, interests, Turkish Cypriots

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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 (1960 Constitution), 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:252
# text = The 1960 Constitution provided for a presidential system of government with independent executive, legislative and judicial branches as well as a complex system of checks and balances including a weighted power-sharing ratio designed to protect the interests of the Turkish Cypriots.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	1960	1960	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Constitution	Constitution	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	provided	provide	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	presidential	presidential	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	system	system	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
12	independent	independent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
13	executive	executive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	legislative	legislative	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	conj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	judicial	judicial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	conj	_	_
18	branches	branch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
19	as	as	ADV	RB	ExtPos=CCONJ	24	cc	_	_
20	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	19	fixed	_	_
21	as	as	ADP	IN	_	19	fixed	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	complex	complex	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	system	system	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	checks	check	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nmod	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	balances	balance	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	conj	_	_
29	including	include	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	35	case	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
31	weighted	weight	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	35	amod	_	_
32	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	sharing	share	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	35	amod	_	_
35	ratio	ratio	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
36	designed	design	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	35	acl	_	_
37	to	to	PART	TO	_	38	mark	_	_
38	protect	protect	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	36	advcl	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	interests	interest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	obj	_	_
41	of	of	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
43	Turkish	Turkish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	amod	_	_
44	Cypriots	cypriot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **provide** | past | the 1960 Constitution |  |  |  |  | for a presidential system of government; with independent executive branches; a complex system of checks include a weighted sharing ratio and balances *conj* | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-2 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent for system=Recipient |
| 2 | **include** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **weight** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn equip-13.4.2-1-1 «NP.theme V NP»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **share** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | power *compound* | tree rules |
| 5 | **design** | participle |  | a weighted sharing ratio *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **protect** | to-infinitive |  | the interests of the Turkish Cypriots |  |  |  |  | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent interest=Beneficiary |
| 7 | **interest** |  |  | the Turkish Cypriots |  |  |  |  | nom interest «cognition 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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