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title: The electricity grid is connected to the Republic of Cyprus, and an… — Northern Cyprus · tree and pragmatics
description: The electricity grid is connected to the Republic of Cyprus, and an interconnector with Turkey would decrease reliance on fossil fuels. Who acts: interconnector. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Northern Cyprus» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Northern Cyprus, sentence 230

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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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The electricity grid is connected to the Republic of Cyprus, and an interconnector with Turkey would decrease reliance on fossil fuels.

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**Who acts:** interconnector · **What happens:** connect, decrease · **To what, where:** electricity grid, reliance, fossil fuels

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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 (interconnector), 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:230
# text = The electricity grid is connected to the Republic of Cyprus, and an interconnector with Turkey would decrease reliance on fossil fuels.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	electricity	electricity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	grid	grid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	connected	connect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Republic	Republic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Cyprus	Cyprus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
13	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	interconnector	interconnector	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Turkey	Turkey	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
17	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	decrease	decrease	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
19	reliance	reliance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
20	on	on	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	fossil	fossil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	fuels	fuel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **connect** | present · passive |  | the electricity grid |  |  |  | to the Republic of Cyprus | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient to republic=Co-Patient |
| 2 | **decrease** | would | a interconnector with Turkey | reliance |  | fossil fuels |  |  | vn caused\_calibratable\_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Causer reliance=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, «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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