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title: Following the death in 1473 of James II, the last Lusignan king, the… — Cyprus · tree and pragmatics
description: Following the death in 1473 of James II, the last Lusignan king, the Republic of Venice assumed control of the island, while the late king's Venetian widow, Queen Catherine Cornaro, reigned as figurehead. Who acts: last Lusignan king, James. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Cyprus» with its dependency tre
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# Cyprus, sentence 98

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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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Following the death in 1473 of James II, the last Lusignan king, the Republic of Venice assumed control of the island, while the late king's Venetian widow, Queen Catherine Cornaro, reigned as figurehead.

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**Who acts:** last Lusignan king, James · **What happens:** follow, assume, reign, die · **To what, where:** control, Queen Catherine

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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 (last Lusignan king, James), 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:98
# text = Following the death in 1473 of James II, the last Lusignan king, the Republic of Venice assumed control of the island, while the late king's Venetian widow, Queen Catherine Cornaro, reigned as figurehead.
1	Following	follow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	1473	1473	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	nmod	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	James	James	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
8	II	II	NUM	CD	NumForm=Roman|NumType=Card	7	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	Lusignan	Lusignan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	Republic	Republic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	appos	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	Venice	Venice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
19	assumed	assume	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
20	control	control	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
25	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	late	late	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	's	's	PART	POS	_	28	case	_	_
30	Venetian	venetian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	widow	widow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
33	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	_
34	Catherine	Catherine	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	appos	_	_
35	Cornaro	Cornaro	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
37	reigned	reign	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	34	acl	_	_
38	as	as	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	figurehead	figurehead	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **follow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **assume** | past | the last Lusignan king | control of the island |  |  |  | follow the death in 1473 of James; the late king's Venetian widow *obj* | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent control=Theme widow=Eventuality |
| 3 | **reign** | participle |  | Queen Catherine *not said here* |  |  |  | as figurehead | tree rules |
| 4 | **die** |  | James |  |  |  |  |  | nom death «event intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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