Cuba, sentence 498
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.
Applying a binary Black/white framework derived from U.S. legal and social history to Cuban racial self-identification therefore imposes a classificatory logic that Cuban society does not use and that systematically erases the identities of a substantial portion of the population.
Who acts: Applying, Cuban society, that · What happens: apply, derive, impose, not use, erase · To what, where: binary Black/white framework, U.S. legal history, classificatory logic, identities
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 (Applying, Cuban society, that), 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 | Applying | apply | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 derived | csubj |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 framework | det |
| 3 | binary | binary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 framework | amod |
| 4 | Black/white | black/white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 framework | amod |
| 5 | framework | framework | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Applying | obj |
| 6 | derived | derive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 history | case |
| 8 | U.S. | U.S. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 history | compound |
| 9 | legal | legal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 history | amod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 social | cc |
| 11 | social | social | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 legal | conj |
| 12 | history | history | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 derived | obl |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 identification | case |
| 14 | Cuban | Cuban | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 identification | amod |
| 15 | racial | racial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 identification | amod |
| 16 | self | self | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 identification | compound |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 self | punct |
| 18 | identification | identification | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 imposes | obl |
| 19 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 20 imposes | advmod |
| 20 | imposes | impose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 derived | parataxis |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 logic | det |
| 22 | classificatory | classificatory | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 logic | amod |
| 23 | logic | logic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 imposes | obj |
| 24 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 29 use | mark |
| 25 | Cuban | Cuban | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 society | amod |
| 26 | society | society | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 use | nsubj |
| 27 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 use | aux |
| 28 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 29 use | advmod |
| 29 | use | use | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 imposes | advcl |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 erases | cc |
| 31 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 33 erases | nsubj |
| 32 | systematically | systematically | ADV | _ | 33 erases | advmod |
| 33 | erases | erase | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 use | conj |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 identities | det |
| 35 | identities | identity | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 erases | obj |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 portion | case |
| 37 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 39 portion | det |
| 38 | substantial | substantial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 portion | amod |
| 39 | portion | portion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 identities | nmod |
| 40 | of | of | ADP | _ | 42 population | case |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 population | det |
| 42 | population | population | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 portion | nmod |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 derived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | apply | gerund | a binary Black/white framework | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent framework=Theme | |||||
| 2 | derive | past | Applying | U.S. legal history | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.material»: agent=Agent from history=Material | ||||
| 3 | impose | present | a classificatory logic | to Cuban racial self identification; therefore property | vn enforce-63 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent logic=Theme | ||||
| 4 | not use | present · do-support | Cuban society | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | erase | present | that | the identities of a substantial portion of the population | systematically property | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent identity=Source |
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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