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title: Unemployment became a problem as graduates entering the workforce co… — Cuba · tree and pragmatics
description: Unemployment became a problem as graduates entering the workforce could not find jobs. Who acts: Unemployment, graduates. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Cuba» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Cuba, sentence 146

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From Wikipedia, [«Cuba»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuba), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.

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Unemployment became a problem as graduates entering the workforce could not find jobs.

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**Who acts:** Unemployment, graduates · **What happens:** become, enter, not find · **To what, where:** problem, workforce, jobs

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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 (Unemployment, graduates), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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:146
# text = Unemployment became a problem as graduates entering the workforce could not find jobs.
1	Unemployment	unemployment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	problem	problem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	xcomp	_	_
5	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
6	graduates	graduate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
7	entering	enter	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	acl	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	workforce	workforce	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
12	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	csubj	_	_
13	jobs	job	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **become** | past | Unemployment | a problem |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **enter** | gerund | graduates *not said here* | the workforce |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme workforce=Destination |
| 3 | **not** **find** | could | graduates | jobs |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent job=Topic |

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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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**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.

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