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title: They smashed or threw out Christian items, such as furniture and orn… — Nicosia · tree and pragmatics
description: They smashed or threw out Christian items, such as furniture and ornaments in the cathedral and destroyed the choir as well as the nave. Who acts: soldiers. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Nicosia» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Nicosia, sentence 281

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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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They smashed or threw out Christian items, such as furniture and ornaments in the cathedral and destroyed the choir as well as the nave.

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**Who acts:** soldiers · **What happens:** smash, throw out, destroy · **To what, where:** Christian items, cathedral, choir

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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 (soldiers), 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:281
# text = They smashed or threw out Christian items, such as furniture and ornaments in the cathedral and destroyed the choir as well as the nave.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	smashed	smash	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	threw	throw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
5	out	out	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	Christian	Christian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	items	item	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	11	case	_	_
10	as	as	ADP	IN	_	9	fixed	_	_
11	furniture	furniture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	ornaments	ornament	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	cathedral	cathedral	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	destroyed	destroy	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	choir	choir	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	as	as	ADV	RB	ExtPos=ADV	18	advmod	_	_
22	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	21	fixed	_	_
23	as	as	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	nave	nave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **smash** | past | soldiers *= soldier* |  |  |  |  |  | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **throw out** | past | soldiers *= soldier* *not said here* | Christian items |  | the cathedral |  | such furniture and ornaments | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent item=Theme in cathedral=Destination |
| 3 | **destroy** | past | soldiers *= soldier* *not said here* | the choir |  |  |  | as the nave | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent choir=Patient |

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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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