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title: On 25 April 1963, the SCCC decided that Makarios's 13 amendments wer… — Northern Cyprus · tree and pragmatics
description: On 25 April 1963, the SCCC decided that Makarios's 13 amendments were illegal. Who acts: SCCC, 13 amendments, Makarios. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Northern Cyprus» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Northern Cyprus, sentence 28

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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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On 25 April 1963, the SCCC decided that Makarios's 13 amendments were illegal.

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**Who acts:** SCCC, 13 amendments, Makarios · **What happens:** decide, be, amend · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (SCCC, 13 amendments, Makarios), 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:28
# text = On 25 April 1963, the SCCC decided that Makarios's 13 amendments were illegal.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	25	25	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	obl	_	_
3	April	April	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:unmarked	_	_
4	1963	1963	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	SCCC	SCCC	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	decided	decide	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
10	Makarios	Makarios	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	's	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	13	13	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
13	amendments	amendment	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
14	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
15	illegal	illegal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **decide** | past | the SCCC |  |  |  |  | on 25 | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.theme S»: agent=Agent on 25=Topic |
| 2 | **is** | past | Makarios's 13 amendments |  |  |  |  | illegal *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **amend** |  | Makarios |  |  |  |  |  | nom amendment «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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