Cuba, sentence 73
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 27 December 1868, he issued a decree condemning slavery in theory—but accepting it in practice—and declaring free any slaves whose masters presented them for military service.
Who acts: Céspedes, decree, free slaves · What happens: issue, condemn, accept, declare, present · To what, where: decree, 27, slavery, theory, practice, masters
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 (Céspedes, decree, free slaves), 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 | _ | 2 27 | case |
| 2 | 27 | 27 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 issued | obl |
| 3 | December | December | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 1868 | nmod:unmarked |
| 4 | 1868 | 1868 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 27 | conj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 27 | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 issued | nsubj |
| 7 | issued | issue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 decree | det |
| 9 | decree | decree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 issued | obj |
| 10 | condemning | condemn | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 decree | acl |
| 11 | slavery | slavery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 condemning | obj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 theory | case |
| 13 | theory | theory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 condemning | obl |
| 14 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 accepting | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 accepting | cc |
| 16 | accepting | accept | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 issued | advcl |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 accepting | obj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 practice | case |
| 19 | practice | practice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 accepting | obl |
| 20 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 declaring | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 declaring | cc |
| 22 | declaring | declare | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 issued | advcl |
| 23 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 slaves | amod |
| 24 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 25 slaves | det |
| 25 | slaves | slave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 presented | nsubj |
| 26 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 27 masters | nmod:poss |
| 27 | masters | master | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 presented | nsubj |
| 28 | presented | present | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 declaring | acl:relcl |
| 29 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 presented | obj |
| 30 | for | for | ADP | _ | 32 service | case |
| 31 | military | military | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 service | amod |
| 32 | service | service | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 presented | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 issued | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | issue | past | Céspedes | a decree | 27 | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location decree=Theme | |||
| 2 | condemn | gerund | a decree not said here | slavery | theory | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent slavery=Theme | |||
| 3 | accept | gerund | Céspedes not said here | slavery | practice | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 4 | declare speech: other | gerund | Céspedes not said here | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | present | past | any free slaves | masters = master | for military service | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Theme for service=Recipient |
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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