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description: Consequently, the town developed sufficiently for the Byzantine Empire to select Nicosia as the capital of the island around 965, when the Byzantine navy restored full imperial control over the island and organised it as a theme. Who acts: town, Byzantine navy. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Nicosia» wi
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# Nicosia, sentence 39

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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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Consequently, the town developed sufficiently for the Byzantine Empire to select Nicosia as the capital of the island around 965, when the Byzantine navy restored full imperial control over the island and organised it as a theme.

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**Who acts:** town, Byzantine navy · **What happens:** develop, select, restore, organise · **To what, where:** Nicosia, full imperial control, island, town

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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 (town, Byzantine navy), 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:39
# text = Consequently, the town developed sufficiently for the Byzantine Empire to select Nicosia as the capital of the island around 965, when the Byzantine navy restored full imperial control over the island and organised it as a theme.
1	Consequently	consequently	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	developed	develop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	sufficiently	sufficiently	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	Byzantine	Byzantine	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	Empire	Empire	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	select	select	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	advcl	_	_
13	Nicosia	Nicosia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
14	as	as	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	capital	capital	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
20	around	around	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	965	965	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
23	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	27	advmod	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	Byzantine	byzantine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	navy	navy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
27	restored	restore	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	advcl	_	_
28	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
29	imperial	imperial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	control	control	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
31	over	over	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	organised	organise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
36	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	obj	_	_
37	as	as	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	theme	theme	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **develop** | past | the town |  |  |  |  | for the Byzantine Empire; consequently, sufficiently *property* | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for empire=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **select** | to-infinitive | the town *not said here* | Nicosia |  |  |  | as the capital of the island around 965 | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent nicosia=Theme as capital=Attribute |
| 3 | **restore** | participle | the Byzantine navy | full imperial control |  | the island |  |  | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent control=Theme |
| 4 | **organise** | past | the town *not said here* | town |  |  |  | as a theme | tree rules |

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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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