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title: Students from different backgrounds in the universities celebrate th… — North Nicosia · tree and pragmatics
description: Students from different backgrounds in the universities celebrate their national festivals with activities, at which their national dances and traditions are performed. Who acts: Students. A sentence of Wikipedia's «North Nicosia» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# North Nicosia, sentence 122

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From Wikipedia, [«North Nicosia»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_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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Students from different backgrounds in the universities celebrate their national festivals with activities, at which their national dances and traditions are performed.

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**Who acts:** Students · **What happens:** celebrate, perform, dance · **To what, where:** national festivals, national dances

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «North Nicosia». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Students), 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:North_Nicosia:122
# text = Students from different backgrounds in the universities celebrate their national festivals with activities, at which their national dances and traditions are performed.
1	Students	student	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
2	from	from	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	backgrounds	background	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	universities	university	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
8	celebrate	celebrate	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
10	national	national	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	festivals	festival	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	activities	activity	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
15	at	at	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	23	obl	_	_
17	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
18	national	national	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	dances	dance	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	traditions	tradition	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	conj	_	_
22	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux:pass	_	_
23	performed	perform	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **celebrate** | present | Students from different backgrounds in the universities | Students's national festivals |  |  |  | with activities | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent festival=Theme |
| 2 | **perform** | present · passive |  | Students's national dances and traditions |  |  |  | which *obl* | vn performance-26.7 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **dance** |  | Students *= student* |  |  |  |  |  | nom dance «communication transitive»: 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, «North 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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