---
title: In the 1950s, various organizations, including some advocating armed… — Cuba · tree and pragmatics
description: In the 1950s, various organizations, including some advocating armed uprising, competed for public support in bringing about political change. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Cuba» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Cuba/149/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [wikipedia](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/) / [en](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/) / [Cuba](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Cuba/) / 149

# Cuba, sentence 149

<!-- div src -->

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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
In the 1950s, various organizations, including some advocating armed uprising, competed for public support in bringing about political change.

<!-- .vintro -->
**What happens:** advocate, compete, bring · **To what, where:** advocating armed uprising, 1950s

<!-- .vabout -->
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: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**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:149
# text = In the 1950s, various organizations, including some advocating armed uprising, competed for public support in bringing about political change.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	1950s	1950	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	various	various	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	organizations	organization	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	including	including	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
9	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	12	nsubj	_	_
10	advocating	advocate	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	amod	_	_
11	armed	armed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	uprising	uprising	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	competed	compete	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	public	public	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	support	support	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
18	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
19	bringing	bring	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
20	about	about	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	political	political	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	change	change	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **advocate** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **compete** | participle |  | advocating armed uprising *not said here* |  |  |  | for public support | vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **bring** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | about political change | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 148](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Cuba/148/)
- next →: [sentence 150](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Cuba/150/)
- ↑ back to [Cuba](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Cuba/)