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title: The UN buffer zone runs up against Dhekelia and picks up again from… — Cyprus · tree and pragmatics
description: The UN buffer zone runs up against Dhekelia and picks up again from its east side off Ayios Nikolaos and is connected to the rest of Dhekelia by a thin land corridor. Who acts: UN buffer zone, thin land corridor. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Cyprus» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Cyprus, sentence 275

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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 UN buffer zone runs up against Dhekelia and picks up again from its east side off Ayios Nikolaos and is connected to the rest of Dhekelia by a thin land corridor.

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**Who acts:** UN buffer zone, thin land corridor · **What happens:** run up, pick up, connect · **To what, where:** Dhekelia, east side

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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 (UN buffer zone, thin land corridor), 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:275
# text = The UN buffer zone runs up against Dhekelia and picks up again from its east side off Ayios Nikolaos and is connected to the rest of Dhekelia by a thin land corridor.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	UN	UN	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
3	buffer	buffer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	zone	zone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	runs	run	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	up	up	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
7	against	against	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Dhekelia	Dhekelia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	picks	pick	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
11	up	up	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
12	again	again	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
13	from	from	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
15	east	east	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
17	off	off	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	Ayios	Ayios	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
19	Nikolaos	Nikolaos	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	flat	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux:pass	_	_
22	connected	connect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	Dhekelia	Dhekelia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
28	by	by	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
30	thin	thin	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
31	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
32	corridor	corridor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run up** | present | the UN buffer zone |  |  | Dhekelia |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme against dhekelia=Trajectory |
| 2 | **pick up** | present | the UN buffer zone *not said here* |  |  | Zone's east side off Ayios | again |  | vn discover-84-1 «NP V PP.source how S»: agent=Agent from side=Source |
| 3 | **connect** | present · passive | a thin land corridor |  |  |  |  | to the rest of Dhekelia | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Patient to rest=Co-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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