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title: The newly settled Turkish population generally occupied the north of… — Nicosia · tree and pragmatics
description: The newly settled Turkish population generally occupied the north of the old riverbed. Who acts: Turkish population. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Nicosia» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Nicosia, sentence 78

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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 newly settled Turkish population generally occupied the north of the old riverbed.

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**Who acts:** Turkish population · **What happens:** settle, occupy · **To what, where:** north

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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 (Turkish population), 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:78
# text = The newly settled Turkish population generally occupied the north of the old riverbed.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	newly	newly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	settled	settle	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	Turkish	Turkish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	population	population	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	generally	generally	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	occupied	occupy	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	north	north	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	riverbed	riverbed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **settle** | past |  |  |  |  |  | newly *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **occupy** | past | Turkish population | the north of the old riverbed |  |  |  | generally *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus north=Experiencer |

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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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