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title: However, the inception of Turkish Cypriot theatre in the modern sens… — Northern Cyprus · tree and pragmatics
description: However, the inception of Turkish Cypriot theatre in the modern sense is considered the staging of the play "Vatan Yahut Silistre" ("Homeland vs. Silistra") by Turkish playwright Namık Kemal in 1908. Who acts: Turkish playwright. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Northern Cyprus» with its dependency tree a
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# Northern Cyprus, sentence 301

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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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However, the inception of Turkish Cypriot theatre in the modern sense is considered the staging of the play "Vatan Yahut Silistre" ("Homeland vs. Silistra") by Turkish playwright Namık Kemal in 1908.

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**Who acts:** Turkish playwright · **What happens:** consider, stage · **To what, where:** inception, 1908, play

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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 (Turkish playwright), 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:301
# text = However, the inception of Turkish Cypriot theatre in the modern sense is considered the staging of the play "Vatan Yahut Silistre" ("Homeland vs. Silistra") by Turkish playwright Namık Kemal in 1908.
1	However	however	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	inception	inception	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	Turkish	Turkish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	Cypriot	Cypriot	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	theatre	theatre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	modern	modern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	sense	sense	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	considered	consider	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	staging	staging	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	xcomp	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	play	play	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
20	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	Vatan	Vatan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	appos	_	_
22	Yahut	Yahut	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	flat	_	_
23	Silistre	Silistre	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	21	punct	_	_
25	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	Homeland	Homeland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	appos	_	_
28	vs.	vs.	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	Silistra	Silistra	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	27	punct	_	_
32	by	by	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	Turkish	Turkish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	playwright	playwright	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
35	Namık	Namık	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	appos	_	_
36	Kemal	Kemal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	flat	_	_
37	in	in	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	1908	1908	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **consider** | present · passive | Turkish playwright | the inception of Turkish Cypriot theatre in the modern sense |  | 1908 |  | the staging of the play *xcomp*; however *property* | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent subject=Attribute |
| 2 | **stage** |  |  | the play |  |  |  |  | nom staging «communication transitive»: of=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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