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title: Fearing a hostile reception, the survivors remained at anchor off th… — Nicosia · tree and pragmatics
description: Fearing a hostile reception, the survivors remained at anchor off the coast for a full week until Richard's arrival on 8 May. Who acts: survivors, Richard. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Nicosia» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Nicosia, sentence 50

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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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Fearing a hostile reception, the survivors remained at anchor off the coast for a full week until Richard's arrival on 8 May.

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**Who acts:** survivors, Richard · **What happens:** fear, remain, arrive · **To what, where:** hostile reception, anchor

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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 (survivors, Richard), 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:50
# text = Fearing a hostile reception, the survivors remained at anchor off the coast for a full week until Richard's arrival on 8 May.
1	Fearing	fear	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	hostile	hostile	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	reception	reception	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	survivors	survivor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
8	remained	remain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	anchor	anchor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
11	off	off	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	coast	coast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	week	week	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
18	until	until	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	Richard	Richard	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	's	's	PART	POS	_	19	case	_	_
21	arrival	arrival	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
22	on	on	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	8	8	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	obl	_	_
24	May	May	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fear** | gerund |  | a hostile reception |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer reception=Stimulus |
| 2 | **remain** | past | the survivors | a hostile reception *not said here* |  | anchor | until Richard's arrival; week | off the coast; on 8  May | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme reception=Attribute |
| 3 | **arrive** |  | Richard |  |  |  |  |  | nom arrival «act intransitive»: poss=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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