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title: The Cyprus Supreme Court's ruling found that Makarios had violated t… — Northern Cyprus · tree and pragmatics
description: The Cyprus Supreme Court's ruling found that Makarios had violated the constitution by failing to fully implement its measures and that Turkish Cypriots had not been allowed to return to their positions in government without first accepting the proposed constitutional amendments. Who acts: ruling, M
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# Northern Cyprus, sentence 29

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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 Cyprus Supreme Court's ruling found that Makarios had violated the constitution by failing to fully implement its measures and that Turkish Cypriots had not been allowed to return to their positions in government without first accepting the proposed constitutional amendments.

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**Who acts:** ruling, Makarios, Turkish Cypriots, Cyprus Supreme Court · **What happens:** find, violate, fail, not implement, not allow, return · **To what, where:** constitution, measures, Turkish Cypriots, government, proposed constitutional amendments · **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 (ruling, Makarios, Turkish Cypriots, Cyprus Supreme Court), 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:29
# text = The Cyprus Supreme Court's ruling found that Makarios had violated the constitution by failing to fully implement its measures and that Turkish Cypriots had not been allowed to return to their positions in government without first accepting the proposed constitutional amendments.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	Cyprus	Cyprus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
3	Supreme	Supreme	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	Court	Court	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	ruling	ruling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
9	Makarios	Makarios	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
10	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	violated	violate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	ccomp	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	constitution	constitution	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
15	failing	fail	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
17	fully	fully	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	implement	implement	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	xcomp	_	_
19	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	measures	measure	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
22	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
23	Turkish	Turkish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	Cypriots	cypriot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nsubj:pass	_	_
25	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
26	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	28	advmod	_	_
27	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	28	aux:pass	_	_
28	allowed	allow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	conj	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
30	return	return	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	xcomp	_	_
31	to	to	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	positions	position	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obl	_	_
34	in	in	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
36	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	38	mark	_	_
37	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	38	advmod	_	_
38	accepting	accept	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	30	advcl	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
40	proposed	propose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	42	amod	_	_
41	constitutional	constitutional	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
42	amendments	amendment	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | past | the Cyprus Supreme Court's ruling |  |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **violate** | past · perfect | Makarios | the constitution |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **fail** | gerund | Makarios *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **not** **implement** | to-infinitive | Makarios *not said here* | ruling's measures |  |  |  | fully *property* | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent measure=Patient |
| 5 | **not** **allow** | past · perfect · passive |  | Turkish Cypriots |  |  |  |  | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality |
| 6 | **return** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Turkish Cypriots *not said here* |  |  | government |  | to Cypriots's positions *result* | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to position=Result |
| 7 | **accept** | gerund | Turkish Cypriots *not said here* | the proposed constitutional amendments |  |  |  | first *property* | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent amendment=Theme |
| 8 | **propose** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 9 | **rule** |  | the Cyprus Supreme Court |  |  |  |  |  | nom ruling «act transitive»: poss=agent |
| 10 | **measure** |  | ruling |  |  |  |  |  | nom measure «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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