Cuba, sentence 14
From Wikipedia, «Cuba», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.
Castro's government became a major point of contention between the Soviet Union and the United States during the Cold War; the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis is widely considered to be the closest the world has come to a nuclear war.
Who acts: government, world · What happens: become, consider, be, come, point · To what, where: major point, 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, nuclear war, contention
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Cuba». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (government, world), 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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Castro | Castro | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 government | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Castro | case |
| 3 | government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 became | nsubj |
| 4 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 point | det |
| 6 | major | major | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 point | amod |
| 7 | point | point | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 became | xcomp |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 contention | case |
| 9 | contention | contention | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 point | nmod |
| 10 | between | between | ADP | _ | 13 Union | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Union | det |
| 12 | Soviet | Soviet | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Union | compound |
| 13 | Union | Union | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 contention | nmod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 States | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 States | det |
| 16 | United | United | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 States | amod |
| 17 | States | State | PROPN | Number=Plur | 13 Union | conj |
| 18 | during | during | ADP | _ | 21 War | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 War | det |
| 20 | Cold | Cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 War | amod |
| 21 | War | War | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 became | obl |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 30 considered | punct |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 Crisis | det |
| 24 | 1962 | 1962 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 27 Crisis | compound |
| 25 | Cuban | Cuban | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 Crisis | amod |
| 26 | Missile | Missile | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 Crisis | compound |
| 27 | Crisis | Crisis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 considered | nsubj:pass |
| 28 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 considered | aux:pass |
| 29 | widely | widely | ADV | _ | 30 considered | advmod |
| 30 | considered | consider | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 became | conj |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 34 closest | mark |
| 32 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 34 closest | cop |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 closest | det |
| 34 | closest | close | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 30 considered | xcomp |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 world | det |
| 36 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 come | nsubj |
| 37 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 38 come | aux |
| 38 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 34 closest | parataxis |
| 39 | to | to | ADP | _ | 42 war | case |
| 40 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 42 war | det |
| 41 | nuclear | nuclear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 war | amod |
| 42 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 come | obl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 became | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | past | Castro's government | a major point of contention between the Soviet Union and the United States | during the Cold War | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | |||
| 2 | consider | present · passive | the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis | widely property | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | is | to-infinitive | close property | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | come | present · perfect | the world | a nuclear war | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to war=Initial_Location | ||||
| 5 | point | contention between the Soviet Union and the United States | nom point «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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