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title: Theatre is currently a very popular form of art in Northern Cyprus,… — Northern Cyprus · tree and pragmatics
description: Theatre is currently a very popular form of art in Northern Cyprus, with long queues forming for tickets of the plays in the Cyprus Theatre Festival, and the number of theatre-goers constantly increasing. Who acts: Theatre, long queues, theatre goers. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Northern Cyprus» with
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# Northern Cyprus, sentence 305

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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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Theatre is currently a very popular form of art in Northern Cyprus, with long queues forming for tickets of the plays in the Cyprus Theatre Festival, and the number of theatre-goers constantly increasing.

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**Who acts:** Theatre, long queues, theatre goers · **What happens:** be, form, increase, ticket · **To what, where:** popular form, plays

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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 (Theatre, long queues, theatre goers), 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:305
# text = Theatre is currently a very popular form of art in Northern Cyprus, with long queues forming for tickets of the plays in the Cyprus Theatre Festival, and the number of theatre-goers constantly increasing.
1	Theatre	theatre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
3	currently	currently	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	very	very	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	popular	popular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	form	form	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	art	art	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	Northern	Northern	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	Cyprus	Cyprus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	queues	queue	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	parataxis	_	_
17	forming	form	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	16	acl	_	_
18	for	for	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	tickets	ticket	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	plays	play	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nmod	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
25	Cyprus	Cyprus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	Theatre	Theatre	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	Festival	Festival	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
33	theatre	theatre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	goers	goer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nmod	_	_
36	constantly	constantly	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
37	increasing	increase	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	35	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Theatre | a popular form and the number of theatre goers |  |  |  | of art in Northern Cyprus; long queues *parataxis*; the number of theatre goers *conj*; currently *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **form** | gerund | long queues *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for tickets of the plays in the Theatre Festival | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **increase** | gerund | theatre goers *not said here* |  |  |  |  | constantly *property* | vn caused\_calibratable\_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **ticket** |  |  | the plays in the Theatre Festival |  |  |  |  | nom ticket «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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