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title: Popular music in Cyprus is generally influenced by the Greek Laïka s… — Cyprus · tree and pragmatics
description: Popular music in Cyprus is generally influenced by the Greek Laïka scene; artists who play in this genre include international platinum star Anna Vissi, Evridiki, and Sarbel. Who acts: Laïka scene, artists. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Cyprus» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Cyprus, sentence 408

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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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Popular music in Cyprus is generally influenced by the Greek Laïka scene; artists who play in this genre include international platinum star Anna Vissi, Evridiki, and Sarbel.

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**Who acts:** Laïka scene, artists · **What happens:** influence, play, include · **To what, where:** Popular music, genre, international platinum star

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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 (Laïka scene, artists), 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:408
# text = Popular music in Cyprus is generally influenced by the Greek Laïka scene; artists who play in this genre include international platinum star Anna Vissi, Evridiki, and Sarbel.
1	Popular	popular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	music	music	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Cyprus	Cyprus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
6	generally	generally	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	influenced	influence	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	by	by	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	Greek	Greek	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	Laïka	Laïka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	scene	scene	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
14	artists	artist	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
15	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
16	play	play	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	19	det	_	_
19	genre	genre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
20	include	include	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
21	international	international	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
22	platinum	platinum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	star	star	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
24	Anna	Anna	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	appos	_	_
25	Vissi	Vissi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	Evridiki	Evridiki	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	Sarbel	Sarbel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **influence** | present · passive | the Laïka scene | Popular music in Cyprus |  |  |  | generally *property* | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient |
| 2 | **play** | present | artists |  |  | this genre |  |  | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **include** | present | artists | international platinum star |  |  |  | Sarbel *obl* | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent star=Theme |

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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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