Cuba, sentence 175
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.
The failed amphibious assault on Cuba contributed to the Soviet decision to deploy R-12 missiles there, and the ensuing Cuban Missile Crisis of October 1962 almost sparked World War III.
Who acts: failed amphibious assault · What happens: fail, contribute, deploy, ensue, spark · To what, where: the, Soviet decision, R 12 missiles, Cuban Missile Crisis, World War
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 (failed amphibious assault), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 assault | det |
| 2 | failed | fail | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 assault | amod |
| 3 | amphibious | amphibious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 assault | amod |
| 4 | assault | assault | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 contributed | nsubj |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 Cuba | case |
| 6 | Cuba | Cuba | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 assault | nmod |
| 7 | contributed | contribute | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 decision | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 decision | det |
| 10 | Soviet | Soviet | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 decision | compound |
| 11 | decision | decision | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 contributed | obl |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 deploy | mark |
| 13 | deploy | deploy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 contributed | advcl |
| 14 | R | R | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 missiles | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 R | punct |
| 16 | 12 | 12 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 17 missiles | nummod |
| 17 | missiles | missile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 deploy | obj |
| 18 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 deploy | advmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 the | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 the | cc |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 contributed | obj |
| 22 | ensuing | ensue | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 21 the | acl |
| 23 | Cuban | Cuban | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 Crisis | amod |
| 24 | Missile | Missile | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 Crisis | compound |
| 25 | Crisis | Crisis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 ensuing | obj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 October | case |
| 27 | October | October | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 Crisis | nmod |
| 28 | 1962 | 1962 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 25 Crisis | flat |
| 29 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 30 sparked | advmod |
| 30 | sparked | spark | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 ensuing | advcl |
| 31 | World | World | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 War | compound |
| 32 | War | War | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 sparked | obj |
| 33 | III | III | NUM | NumForm=Roman NumType=Card | 32 War | flat |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 contributed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fail | participle | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | contribute | past | the failed amphibious assault on Cuba | the | the Soviet decision | vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent the=Theme to decision=Recipient | |||
| 3 | deploy | to-infinitive | the failed amphibious assault on Cuba not said here | R 12 missiles | there | tree rules | |||
| 4 | ensue | gerund | Cuban Missile Crisis of October | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | spark | past | World War | almost property | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition war=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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