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title: In 1944, the offices were temporarily transferred to the d'Avila Bas… — Nicosia · tree and pragmatics
description: In 1944, the offices were temporarily transferred to the d'Avila Bastion, and in 1952 the move was made permanent following a decision to renovate the building. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Nicosia» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Nicosia, sentence 105

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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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In 1944, the offices were temporarily transferred to the d'Avila Bastion, and in 1952 the move was made permanent following a decision to renovate the building.

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**What happens:** transfer, make, follow, renovate · **To what, where:** offices, d'Avila Bastion, 1944, move, 1952, decision

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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: 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:105
# text = In 1944, the offices were temporarily transferred to the d'Avila Bastion, and in 1952 the move was made permanent following a decision to renovate the building.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	1944	1944	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	offices	office	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
7	temporarily	temporarily	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	transferred	transfer	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	d'Avila	d'Avila	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	Bastion	bastion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	1952	1952	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	20	obl	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	move	move	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj:pass	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	parataxis	_	_
21	permanent	permanent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	xcomp	_	_
22	following	follow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	20	advcl	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	decision	decision	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	renovate	renovate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	acl	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	building	building	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **transfer** | past · passive |  | the offices | the d'Avila Bastion | 1944 |  | temporarily *property* | vn contribute-13.2-2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to bastion=Recipient |
| 2 | **make** | past · passive |  | the move |  | 1952 |  | permanent *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
| 3 | **follow** | gerund |  | a decision |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent decision=Theme |
| 4 | **renovate** | to-infinitive |  | the building |  |  |  |  | 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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