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title: Nicosia, also known as Lefkosia or Lefkoşa, is the capital of Cyprus. — Nicosia · tree and pragmatics
description: Nicosia, also known as Lefkosia or Lefkoşa, is the capital of Cyprus. Who acts: Nicosia. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Nicosia» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Nicosia, sentence 1

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From Wikipedia, [«Nicosia»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicosia), 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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Nicosia, also known as Lefkosia or Lefkoşa, is the capital of Cyprus.

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**Who acts:** Nicosia · **What happens:** know, be · **To what, where:** Nicosia, capital

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Nicosia». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Nicosia), 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:Nicosia:1
# text = Nicosia, also known as Lefkosia or Lefkoşa, is the capital of Cyprus.
1	Nicosia	Nicosia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	also	also	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	acl	_	_
5	as	as	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Lefkosia	Lefkosia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
7	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	Lefkoşa	Lefkoşa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	capital	capital	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Cyprus	Cyprus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | participle |  | Nicosia *not said here* |  |  |  | as Lefkosia or Lefkoşa | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer as lefkosia=Attribute |
| 2 | **is a** | present | Nicosia | the capital |  |  |  | of Cyprus | 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, «Nicosia», 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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