--- title: Pakistan and Bangladesh reportedly planned to recognize Northern Cyp… — Northern Cyprus · tree and pragmatics description: Pakistan and Bangladesh reportedly planned to recognize Northern Cyprus as a sovereign state shortly after its declaration of independence, but were persuaded to withhold recognition under the threat that they would risk losing US foreign aid. Who acts: Pakistan, country. 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Pakistan and Bangladesh reportedly planned to recognize Northern Cyprus as a sovereign state shortly after its declaration of independence, but were persuaded to withhold recognition under the threat that they would risk losing US foreign aid. **Who acts:** Pakistan, country · **What happens:** plan, recognize, persuade, withhold, risk, lose · **To what, where:** Northern Cyprus, recognition, threat, US foreign aid, independence 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 (Pakistan, country), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:129 # text = Pakistan and Bangladesh reportedly planned to recognize Northern Cyprus as a sovereign state shortly after its declaration of independence, but were persuaded to withhold recognition under the threat that they would risk losing US foreign aid. 1 Pakistan Pakistan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 2 and and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 3 Bangladesh Bangladesh PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 conj _ _ 4 reportedly reportedly ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 planned plan VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 to to PART TO _ 7 mark _ _ 7 recognize recognize VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 xcomp _ _ 8 Northern northern ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 Cyprus Cyprus PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 10 as as ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 sovereign sovereign NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 compound _ _ 13 state state NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 14 shortly shortly ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 15 after after ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 17 declaration declaration NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 18 of of ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 independence independence NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 21 but but CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 22 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 aux:pass _ _ 23 persuaded persuade VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 conj _ _ 24 to to PART TO _ 25 mark _ _ 25 withhold withhold VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 xcomp _ _ 26 recognition recognition NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 27 under under ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 threat threat NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 30 that that SCONJ IN _ 33 mark _ _ 31 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 32 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 33 aux _ _ 33 risk risk VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 advcl _ _ 34 losing lose VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 33 xcomp _ _ 35 US US PROPN NNP Number=Sing 37 compound _ _ 36 foreign foreign ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 37 aid aid NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 38 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **plan** | past | Pakistan and Bangladesh | | | | | reportedly *property* | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **recognize** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Pakistan and Bangladesh *not said here* | Northern Cyprus | | | after country's declaration of independence | as a sovereign state | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer cyprus=Stimulus as state=Attribute | | 3 | **persuade** | past · passive | Pakistan and Bangladesh *not said here* | | | | | | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: clause=Result | | 4 | **withhold** | to-infinitive | Pakistan and Bangladesh *not said here* | recognition | | the threat | | | tree rules | | 5 | **risk** | would | Pakistan | | | | | | vn risk-94-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 6 | **lose** | gerund | Pakistan *not said here* | US foreign aid | | | | | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent aid=Eventuality | | 7 | **declare** | | country | independence | | | | | nom declaration «communication transitive»: poss=agent of=patient | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 128](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Northern_Cyprus/128/) - next →: [sentence 130](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Northern_Cyprus/130/) - ↑ back to [Northern Cyprus](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Northern_Cyprus/)