Cuba, sentence 217
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 military advisors were sent to Iraq in the mid-1970s, but their mission was canceled after Iraq invaded Iran in 1980.
Who acts: Iraq · What happens: send, cancel, invade · To what, where: Cuban military advisors, Iraq, mid-1970s, mission, Iran, 1980
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 (Iraq), 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 | 3 advisors | amod |
| 2 | military | military | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 advisors | amod |
| 3 | advisors | advisor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 sent | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 sent | aux:pass |
| 5 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 Iraq | case |
| 7 | Iraq | Iraq | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 sent | obl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 mid-1970s | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 mid-1970s | det |
| 10 | mid-1970s | mid-1970 | NOUN | Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card | 5 sent | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 canceled | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 canceled | cc |
| 13 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 mission | nmod:poss |
| 14 | mission | mission | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 canceled | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 canceled | aux:pass |
| 16 | canceled | cancel | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 sent | conj |
| 17 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 19 invaded | mark |
| 18 | Iraq | Iraq | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 invaded | nsubj |
| 19 | invaded | invade | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 canceled | advcl |
| 20 | Iran | Iran | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 invaded | obj |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 1980 | case |
| 22 | 1980 | 1980 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 19 invaded | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past · passive | Cuban military advisors | Iraq | the mid-1970s | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to iraq=Destination | |||
| 2 | cancel | past · passive | advisors's mission | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | invade | past | Iraq | Iran | 1980 | tree rules |
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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