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title: Fitch stated Cyprus would need an additional €4 billion to support i… — Cyprus · tree and pragmatics
description: Fitch stated Cyprus would need an additional €4 billion to support its banks and the downgrade was mainly due to the exposure of Bank of Cyprus, Cyprus Popular Bank, and Hellenic Bank, Cyprus's three largest banks, to the Greek government-debt crisis. Who acts: Fitch, Cyprus, downgrade. A sentence o
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# Cyprus, sentence 301

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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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Fitch stated Cyprus would need an additional €4 billion to support its banks and the downgrade was mainly due to the exposure of Bank of Cyprus, Cyprus Popular Bank, and Hellenic Bank, Cyprus's three largest banks, to the Greek government-debt crisis.

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**Who acts:** Fitch, Cyprus, downgrade · **What happens:** state, need, support, be · **To what, where:** Hellenic Bank, additional €, banks · **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 (Fitch, Cyprus, downgrade), 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:301
# text = Fitch stated Cyprus would need an additional €4 billion to support its banks and the downgrade was mainly due to the exposure of Bank of Cyprus, Cyprus Popular Bank, and Hellenic Bank, Cyprus's three largest banks, to the Greek government-debt crisis.
1	Fitch	Fitch	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	stated	state	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	Cyprus	Cyprus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	need	need	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	ccomp	_	_
6	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	additional	additional	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	€	€	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	4	4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	compound	_	_
10	billion	billion	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	obl	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	support	support	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	advcl	_	_
13	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	banks	bank	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	downgrade	downgrade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	cop	_	_
19	mainly	mainly	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
20	due	due	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	31	case	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	fixed	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	exposure	exposure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	Bank	Bank	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	Cyprus	Cyprus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	Cyprus	Cyprus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	Popular	Popular	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	Bank	Bank	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
34	Hellenic	Hellenic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	_
35	Bank	Bank	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
37	Cyprus	Cyprus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	41	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	's	's	PART	POS	_	37	case	_	_
39	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	41	nummod	_	_
40	largest	large	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	41	amod	_	_
41	banks	bank	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
43	to	to	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
45	Greek	Greek	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	49	amod	_	_
46	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	46	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	debt	debt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	compound	_	_
49	crisis	crisis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **state** *speech: other* | past | Fitch | Hellenic Bank and Cyprus's three largest banks and the Greek debt crisis |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **need** | would | Cyprus | a additional € |  |  |  | 4 billion *obl* | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot €=Theme |
| 3 | **support** | to-infinitive | Cyprus *not said here* | €'s banks |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bank=Stimulus |
| 4 | **is** | past | the downgrade |  |  |  |  | due Popular Bank; of Cyprus; the exposure of Bank *nsubj*; mainly *property* | tree rules |

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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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