--- title: Makarios announced that he would not comply with the decision of the… — Northern Cyprus · tree and pragmatics description: Makarios announced that he would not comply with the decision of the SCCC, whatever it was, and defended his amendments as being necessary "to resolve constitutional deadlocks" as opposed to the stance of the SCCC. Who acts: Makarios, SCCC. 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Makarios announced that he would not comply with the decision of the SCCC, whatever it was, and defended his amendments as being necessary "to resolve constitutional deadlocks" as opposed to the stance of the SCCC. **Who acts:** Makarios, SCCC · **What happens:** announce, not comply, defend, be, resolve, oppose · **To what, where:** amendments, constitutional deadlocks, SCCC · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (Makarios, SCCC), 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:27 # text = Makarios announced that he would not comply with the decision of the SCCC, whatever it was, and defended his amendments as being necessary "to resolve constitutional deadlocks" as opposed to the stance of the SCCC. 1 Makarios Makarios PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 announced announce VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 that that SCONJ IN _ 7 mark _ _ 4 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 5 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 6 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 7 advmod _ _ 7 comply comply VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 ccomp _ _ 8 with with ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 decision decision NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 11 of of ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 SCCC SCCC PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 15 whatever whatever PRON WP PronType=Rel 10 conj _ _ 16 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 defended defend VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 21 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ _ 22 amendments amendment NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obj _ _ 23 as as SCONJ IN _ 25 mark _ _ 24 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 25 cop _ _ 25 necessary necessary ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 advcl _ _ 26 " " PUNCT '' _ 25 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 27 to to PART TO _ 28 mark _ _ 28 resolve resolve VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 advcl _ _ 29 constitutional constitutional ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 deadlocks deadlock NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 31 " " PUNCT '' _ 30 punct _ _ 32 as as SCONJ IN _ 33 mark _ _ 33 opposed oppose VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 28 advcl _ _ 34 to to ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 stance stance NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ _ 37 of of ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 SCCC SCCC PROPN NNP Number=Sing 36 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **announce** *speech: other* | past | Makarios | | | | | | vn order-58.3 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **not** **comply** | would | Makarios | | | | | with the decision of the SCCC whatever | tree rules | | 3 | **defend** | past | Makarios *not said here* | SCCC's amendments | | | | | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent amendment=Beneficiary | | 4 | **is** | gerund | Makarios *not said here* | | | | | necessary *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **resolve** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | Makarios *not said here* | constitutional deadlocks | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **oppose** | participle | Makarios *not said here* | | | | | to the stance of the SCCC | vn amalgamate-22.2-3 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | | 7 | **decide** | | | the SCCC | | | | | nom decision «act transitive»: of=patient | | 8 | **amend** | | SCCC | | | | | | nom amendment «act transitive»: poss=agent | 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 26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Northern_Cyprus/26/) - next →: [sentence 28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Northern_Cyprus/28/) - ↑ back to [Northern Cyprus](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Northern_Cyprus/)