Cuba, sentence 434
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.
On 2 August 2011, The New York Times reported that Cuba reaffirmed its intent to legalize "buying and selling" of private property before the year's end.
Who acts: Cuba, Times · What happens: report, reaffirm, legalize, buy, sell, intend · To what, where: York Times, intent
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 (Cuba, Times), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 August | case |
| 2 | 2 | 2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 August | nummod |
| 3 | August | August | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 reported | obl |
| 4 | 2011 | 2011 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 August | flat |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 August | punct |
| 6 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Times | det |
| 7 | New | New | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 York | flat |
| 8 | York | York | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Times | compound |
| 9 | Times | Times | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 reported | obl:unmarked |
| 10 | reported | report | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 reaffirmed | mark |
| 12 | Cuba | Cuba | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 reaffirmed | nsubj |
| 13 | reaffirmed | reaffirm | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 reported | ccomp |
| 14 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 intent | nmod:poss |
| 15 | intent | intent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 reaffirmed | obj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 legalize | mark |
| 17 | legalize | legalize | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 reaffirmed | xcomp |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 buying | punct |
| 19 | buying | buy | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 legalize | advcl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 selling | cc |
| 21 | selling | sell | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 buying | conj |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 property | punct |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 property | case |
| 24 | private | private | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 property | amod |
| 25 | property | property | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 selling | obl |
| 26 | before | before | ADP | _ | 30 end | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 year | det |
| 28 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 end | nmod:poss |
| 29 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 28 year | case |
| 30 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 selling | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 reported | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | report | past | the York Times | august | vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | reaffirm | past | Cuba | Times's intent | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | legalize | to-infinitive | Cuba not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | buy in a quote | gerund | Cuba not said here | vn accept-77.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | sell in a quote | gerund | Cuba not said here | before the year's end | of private property | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent | |||
| 6 | intend | Times | nom intent «cognition transitive»: poss=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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