--- title: Castro's government became a major point of contention between the S… — Cuba · tree and pragmatics description: Castro's government became a major point of contention between the Soviet Union and the United States during the Cold War; the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis is widely considered to be the closest the world has come to a nuclear war. Who acts: government, world. 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Castro's government became a major point of contention between the Soviet Union and the United States during the Cold War; the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis is widely considered to be the closest the world has come to a nuclear war. **Who acts:** government, world · **What happens:** become, consider, be, come, point · **To what, where:** major point, 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, nuclear war, contention 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 (government, world), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = wikipedia:Cuba:14 # text = Castro's government became a major point of contention between the Soviet Union and the United States during the Cold War; the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis is widely considered to be the closest the world has come to a nuclear war. 1 Castro Castro PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 2 's 's PART POS _ 1 case _ _ 3 government government NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 became become VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 major major ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 point point NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 xcomp _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 contention contention NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod _ _ 10 between between ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 Soviet Soviet PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 compound _ _ 13 Union Union PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 nmod _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 United United ADJ NNP Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 States State PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 13 conj _ _ 18 during during ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 Cold Cold ADJ NNP Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 War War PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 22 ; ; PUNCT : _ 30 punct _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 24 1962 1962 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 27 compound _ _ 25 Cuban Cuban ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 26 Missile Missile PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 compound _ _ 27 Crisis Crisis PROPN NNP Number=Sing 30 nsubj:pass _ _ 28 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 aux:pass _ _ 29 widely widely ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 30 considered consider VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 conj _ _ 31 to to PART TO _ 34 mark _ _ 32 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 34 cop _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 closest close ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 30 xcomp _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 nsubj _ _ 37 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 38 aux _ _ 38 come come VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 34 parataxis _ _ 39 to to ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 40 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 41 nuclear nuclear ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 42 amod _ _ 42 war war NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **become** | past | Castro's government | a major point of contention between the Soviet Union and the United States | | | during the Cold War | | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | | 2 | **consider** | present · passive | | the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis | | | | widely *property* | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute | | 3 | **is** | to-infinitive | | | | | | close *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **come** | present · perfect | the world | | | a nuclear war | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to war=Initial\_Location | | 5 | **point** | | | contention between the Soviet Union and the United States | | | | | nom point «cognition transitive»: of=patient | 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. **Text:** the English Wikipedia, «Cuba», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. **Tree:** Mova's own parse, CC BY-SA 4.0 as the text is. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the article read in order, CC BY-SA 4.0. - ← previous: [sentence 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Cuba/13/) - next →: [sentence 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Cuba/15/) - ↑ back to [Cuba](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Cuba/)