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title: A buffer zone was established across the island along the ceasefire… — Nicosia · tree and pragmatics
description: A buffer zone was established across the island along the ceasefire line to separate the northern Turkish controlled part of the island, and the south. Who acts: northern Turkish. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Nicosia» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Nicosia, sentence 151

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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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A buffer zone was established across the island along the ceasefire line to separate the northern Turkish controlled part of the island, and the south.

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**Who acts:** northern Turkish · **What happens:** establish, separate, control · **To what, where:** buffer zone, island, part

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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 (northern Turkish), 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:151
# text = A buffer zone was established across the island along the ceasefire line to separate the northern Turkish controlled part of the island, and the south.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	buffer	buffer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	zone	zone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	established	establish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	across	across	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	along	along	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	ceasefire	ceasefire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	line	line	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	separate	separate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	acl	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	northern	northern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	Turkish	Turkish	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	controlled	control	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	ccomp	_	_
19	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	south	south	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **establish** | past · passive |  | a buffer zone |  | the island |  | along the ceasefire line; the south *parataxis* | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **separate** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **control** | past | the northern Turkish | part of the island |  |  |  |  | vn enforce-63 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=Theme |

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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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