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title: Adjacent streets lead to the most lively part of the old city charac… — Nicosia · tree and pragmatics
description: Adjacent streets lead to the most lively part of the old city characterised by narrow streets, boutiques, bars and art cafés. Who acts: Adjacent streets. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Nicosia» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Nicosia, sentence 144

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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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Adjacent streets lead to the most lively part of the old city characterised by narrow streets, boutiques, bars and art cafés.

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**Who acts:** Adjacent streets · **What happens:** lead, characteris · **To what, where:** old city

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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 (Adjacent streets), 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:144
# text = Adjacent streets lead to the most lively part of the old city characterised by narrow streets, boutiques, bars and art cafés.
1	Adjacent	adjacent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	streets	street	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	lead	lead	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	7	advmod	_	_
7	lively	lively	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
13	characterised	characteris	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl	_	_
14	by	by	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	narrow	narrow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	streets	street	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	boutiques	boutique	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	bars	bar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	art	art	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	cafés	café	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lead** | present | Adjacent streets |  |  |  |  | to the lively part of the old city | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to part=Patient |
| 2 | **characteris** | participle |  | the old city *not said here* |  |  |  | by narrow streets and boutiques and bars and art cafés | 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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