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title: The city is governed by the Nicosia Turkish Municipality, which is r… — North Nicosia · tree and pragmatics
description: The city is governed by the Nicosia Turkish Municipality, which is recognised by the constitution of the Republic of Cyprus. Who acts: Nicosia Turkish, constitution. A sentence of Wikipedia's «North Nicosia» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# North Nicosia, sentence 23

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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 city is governed by the Nicosia Turkish Municipality, which is recognised by the constitution of the Republic of Cyprus.

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**Who acts:** Nicosia Turkish, constitution · **What happens:** govern, recognise, constitute · **To what, where:** city, Republic

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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 (Nicosia Turkish, constitution), 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:23
# text = The city is governed by the Nicosia Turkish Municipality, which is recognised by the constitution of the Republic of Cyprus.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	governed	govern	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	Nicosia	Nicosia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	Turkish	Turkish	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl:agent	_	_
9	Municipality	Municipality	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	recognised	recognise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
14	by	by	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	constitution	constitution	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	Republic	Republic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	Cyprus	Cyprus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **govern** | present · passive | the Nicosia Turkish | the city |  |  |  |  | vn supervision-95.2.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
| 2 | **recognise** | present · passive | the constitution of the Republic of Cyprus |  |  |  |  | which *nsubj:pass* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer subject=Stimulus |
| 3 | **constitute** |  |  | the Republic of Cyprus |  |  |  |  | nom constitution «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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