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title: The constitution states that various main government buildings and h… — Nicosia · tree and pragmatics
description: The constitution states that various main government buildings and headquarters must be situated within the Nicosia municipal boundaries. Who acts: constitution. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Nicosia» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Nicosia, sentence 214

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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 constitution states that various main government buildings and headquarters must be situated within the Nicosia municipal boundaries.

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**Who acts:** constitution · **What happens:** state, situate · **To what, where:** various main government buildings · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (constitution), 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:214
# text = The constitution states that various main government buildings and headquarters must be situated within the Nicosia municipal boundaries.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	constitution	constitution	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	states	state	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
5	various	various	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
6	main	main	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	buildings	building	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	headquarters	headquarters	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	8	conj	_	_
11	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	situated	situate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	ccomp	_	_
14	within	within	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
16	Nicosia	Nicosia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
17	municipal	municipal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	boundaries	boundary	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **state** *speech: other* | present | the constitution |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **situate** | must · passive |  | various main government buildings and headquarters |  |  |  | within the Nicosia municipal boundaries | vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=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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