Cuba, sentence 191
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.
Cuban advisors began operating with guerrillas in the Guinea-Bissau War of Independence, and in November 1969 Portuguese troops captured Cuban Captain Pedro Rodriguez Peralta.
Who acts: Cuban advisors, Portuguese troops · What happens: begin, operate, capture · To what, where: Guinea Bissau War, Captain Pedro Rodriguez
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 (Cuban advisors, Portuguese troops), 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 | Cuban | Cuban | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 advisors | amod |
| 2 | advisors | advisor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 began | nsubj |
| 3 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | operating | operate | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 began | xcomp |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 guerrillas | case |
| 6 | guerrillas | guerrilla | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 operating | obl |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 War | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 War | det |
| 9 | Guinea | guinea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 War | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 Guinea | punct |
| 11 | Bissau | Bissau | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 War | compound |
| 12 | War | War | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 operating | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Independence | case |
| 14 | Independence | Independence | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 War | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 captured | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 captured | cc |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 November | case |
| 18 | November | November | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 captured | obl |
| 19 | 1969 | 1969 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 18 November | nmod:unmarked |
| 20 | Portuguese | portuguese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 troops | amod |
| 21 | troops | troops | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 22 captured | nsubj |
| 22 | captured | capture | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 began | parataxis |
| 23 | Cuban | Cuban | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Captain | compound |
| 24 | Captain | Captain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 Rodriguez | compound |
| 25 | Pedro | Pedro | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 Rodriguez | compound |
| 26 | Rodriguez | Rodriguez | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 captured | obl |
| 27 | Peralta | Peralta | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 Rodriguez | flat |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | Cuban advisors | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | operate | gerund | Cuban advisors not said here | the Guinea Bissau War of Independence | with guerrillas | vn function-105.2.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | capture | past | Portuguese troops | Captain Pedro Rodriguez | november | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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