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title: On 23 April 2003, the Ledra Palace crossing was opened through the G… — North Nicosia · tree and pragmatics
description: On 23 April 2003, the Ledra Palace crossing was opened through the Green Line, the first time that crossing was allowed since 1974. A sentence of Wikipedia's «North Nicosia» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# North Nicosia, sentence 18

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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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On 23 April 2003, the Ledra Palace crossing was opened through the Green Line, the first time that crossing was allowed since 1974.

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**What happens:** open, allow · **To what, where:** Palace crossing, 23, first time

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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: 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:18
# text = On 23 April 2003, the Ledra Palace crossing was opened through the Green Line, the first time that crossing was allowed since 1974.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	23	23	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	obl	_	_
3	April	April	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:unmarked	_	_
4	2003	2003	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	Ledra	Ledra	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	Palace	Palace	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	crossing	crossing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	opened	open	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
12	through	through	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	Green	Green	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	Line	Line	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	19	amod	_	_
19	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	appos	_	_
20	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	23	nsubj:pass	_	_
21	crossing	crossing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj:pass	_	_
22	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux:pass	_	_
23	allowed	allow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	acl:relcl	_	_
24	since	since	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	1974	1974	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **open** | past · passive |  | the Palace crossing |  | 23  2003  April |  | through the Green Line | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: subject=Theme on 23=Location |
| 2 | **allow** | past · passive |  | the first time |  |  | since 1974 | crossing *nsubj:pass* | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Beneficiary |

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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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