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title: The coup ousted Archbishop Makarios III as President of Cyprus, repl… — North Nicosia · tree and pragmatics
description: The coup ousted Archbishop Makarios III as President of Cyprus, replacing him with pro-enosis nationalist Nikos Sampson. Who acts: coup. A sentence of Wikipedia's «North Nicosia» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# North Nicosia, sentence 14

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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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The coup ousted Archbishop Makarios III as President of Cyprus, replacing him with pro-enosis nationalist Nikos Sampson.

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**Who acts:** coup · **What happens:** oust, replace · **To what, where:** Archbishop

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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 (coup), 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:14
# text = The coup ousted Archbishop Makarios III as President of Cyprus, replacing him with pro-enosis nationalist Nikos Sampson.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	coup	coup	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	ousted	oust	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	Archbishop	Archbishop	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	Makarios	Makarios	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	flat	_	_
6	III	III	NUM	CD	NumForm=Roman|NumType=Card	4	flat	_	_
7	as	as	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	President	President	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Cyprus	Cyprus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	replacing	replace	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
13	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	pro-enosis	pro-enosis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	nationalist	nationalist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
17	Nikos	Nikos	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	appos	_	_
18	Sampson	Sampson	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **oust** | past | the coup | Archbishop |  |  |  | as President of Cyprus | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent archbishop=Theme as president=Attribute |
| 2 | **replace** | gerund | the coup *not said here* | Archbishop |  |  |  | with pro-enosis nationalist | vn substitute-13.6.2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme he=Location with nationalist=Co-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, «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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