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title: Northern Cyprus, officially the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus… — Northern Cyprus · tree and pragmatics
description: Northern Cyprus, officially the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC), is a de facto state comprising the northern third of the island of Cyprus. Who acts: Northern Cyprus, de state. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Northern Cyprus» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Northern Cyprus, sentence 1

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From Wikipedia, [«Northern Cyprus»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Cyprus), 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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Northern Cyprus, officially the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC), is a de facto state comprising the northern third of the island of Cyprus.

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**Who acts:** Northern Cyprus, de state · **What happens:** be, comprise · **To what, where:** de state, northern third

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Northern Cyprus». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Northern Cyprus, de state), 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:Northern_Cyprus:1
# text = Northern Cyprus, officially the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC), is a de facto state comprising the northern third of the island of Cyprus.
1	Northern	northern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	Cyprus	Cyprus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
4	officially	officially	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	Turkish	Turkish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	Republic	Republic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	Northern	Northern	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	Cyprus	Cyprus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	TRNC	TRNC	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
17	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	19	amod	_	_
18	facto	facto	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	17	flat	_	_
19	state	state	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
20	comprising	comprise	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	19	acl	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	northern	northern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	third	third	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	Cyprus	Cyprus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Northern Cyprus | a de state |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **comprise** | gerund | a de state *not said here* | the northern third of the island of Cyprus |  |  |  |  | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme third=Pivot |

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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, «Northern Cyprus», 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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