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title: Instead these services were the Nicosia District Local Government Or… — Nicosia · tree and pragmatics
description: Instead these services were the Nicosia District Local Government Organisation (NDLGO) was established to administer water supply, sewage and storm-drain water, development licensing and solid waste across the Nicosia District. Who acts: Nicosia District, development. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Nico
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# Nicosia, sentence 201

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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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Instead these services were the Nicosia District Local Government Organisation (NDLGO) was established to administer water supply, sewage and storm-drain water, development licensing and solid waste across the Nicosia District.

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**Who acts:** Nicosia District, development · **What happens:** be, establish, administer, license · **To what, where:** Local Government Organisation, water supply, Nicosia District

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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 District, development), 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:201
# text = Instead these services were the Nicosia District Local Government Organisation (NDLGO) was established to administer water supply, sewage and storm-drain water, development licensing and solid waste across the Nicosia District.
1	Instead	instead	ADV	RB	_	3	case	_	_
2	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	services	service	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
6	Nicosia	Nicosia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	District	District	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
8	Local	local	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	Government	Government	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	Organisation	organisation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	NDLGO	NDLGO	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	12	punct	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux:pass	_	_
15	established	establish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	administer	administer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	xcomp	_	_
18	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	supply	supply	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	sewage	sewage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
23	storm	storm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	drain	drain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
28	development	development	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
29	licensing	license	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	28	acl	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
31	solid	solid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	waste	waste	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
33	across	across	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	Nicosia	Nicosia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	compound	_	_
36	District	District	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | Nicosia District | the Local Government Organisation |  |  |  | instead this services; NDLGO *appos* | tree rules |
| 2 | **establish** | past · passive |  | the Local Government Organisation |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **administer** | to-infinitive |  | water supply and sewage and storm drain water and development and solid waste |  | the Nicosia District |  |  | vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent supply=Theme |
| 4 | **license** | gerund | development *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn patent-101 «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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