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title: The second phase of the invasion began on 14 August 1974, where Turk… — Nicosia · tree and pragmatics
description: The second phase of the invasion began on 14 August 1974, where Turkish forces advanced their positions, eventually capturing 37% of Cypriot territory including the northern part of Nicosia. Who acts: second phase, Turkish forces. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Nicosia» with its dependency tree and prag
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# Nicosia, sentence 125

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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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The second phase of the invasion began on 14 August 1974, where Turkish forces advanced their positions, eventually capturing 37% of Cypriot territory including the northern part of Nicosia.

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**Who acts:** second phase, Turkish forces · **What happens:** begin, advance, capture, include · **To what, where:** positions

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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 (second phase, Turkish forces), 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:125
# text = The second phase of the invasion began on 14 August 1974, where Turkish forces advanced their positions, eventually capturing 37% of Cypriot territory including the northern part of Nicosia.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	3	amod	_	_
3	phase	phase	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	invasion	invasion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	14	14	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	August	August	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	1974	1974	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	16	advmod	_	_
14	Turkish	Turkish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	forces	force	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
16	advanced	advance	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
17	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	positions	position	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	eventually	eventually	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	capturing	capture	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	advcl	_	_
22	37	37	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	23	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	%	%	SYM	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	Cypriot	Cypriot	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	territory	territory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
27	including	include	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	30	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	northern	northern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	Nicosia	Nicosia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **begin** | past | the second phase of the invasion |  |  |  | august |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 2 | **advance** | past | Turkish forces | phases's positions |  |  |  |  | vn caused\_calibratable\_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Causer position=Patient |
| 3 | **capture** | gerund | Turkish forces *not said here* |  |  |  |  | include the northern part of Nicosia; eventually *property* | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent %=Theme |
| 4 | **include** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=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, «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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