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title: The first railway line on the island was the Cyprus Government Railw… — Nicosia · tree and pragmatics
description: The first railway line on the island was the Cyprus Government Railway which operated from 1905 to 1951. Who acts: first railway line, Government Railway. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Nicosia» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Nicosia, sentence 341

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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 first railway line on the island was the Cyprus Government Railway which operated from 1905 to 1951.

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**Who acts:** first railway line, Government Railway · **What happens:** be, operate · **To what, where:** Government Railway, 1905

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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 (first railway line, Government Railway), 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:341
# text = The first railway line on the island was the Cyprus Government Railway which operated from 1905 to 1951.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	4	amod	_	_
3	railway	railway	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	line	line	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	Cyprus	Cyprus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	Government	Government	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	Railway	railway	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
13	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
14	operated	operate	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	_
15	from	from	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	1905	1905	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	14	obl	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	1951	1951	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | the first railway line on the island | the Government Railway |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **operate** | past | the Government Railway |  |  | 1905 to 1951 |  |  | vn function-105.2.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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