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title: In January 1962, Cuba was suspended from the Organization of America… — Cuba · tree and pragmatics
description: In January 1962, Cuba was suspended from the Organization of American States (OAS), which imposed sanctions of similar nature to the U.S. sanctions. Who acts: Organization. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Cuba» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Cuba, sentence 174

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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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In January 1962, Cuba was suspended from the Organization of American States (OAS), which imposed sanctions of similar nature to the U.S. sanctions.

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**Who acts:** Organization · **What happens:** suspend, impose, sanction · **To what, where:** Cuba, sanctions, similar nature

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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 (Organization), 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:174
# text = In January 1962, Cuba was suspended from the Organization of American States (OAS), which imposed sanctions of similar nature to the U.S. sanctions.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	January	January	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
3	1962	1962	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
5	Cuba	Cuba	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	suspended	suspend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	from	from	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Organization	Organization	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl:agent	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	American	American	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	States	State	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	_
14	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	OAS	OAS	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
19	imposed	impose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
20	sanctions	sanction	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	similar	similar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	nature	nature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	U.S.	U.S.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	sanctions	sanction	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **suspend** | past · passive | the Organization of American States | Cuba |  |  | january |  | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
| 2 | **impose** | past | the Organization of American States | sanctions of similar nature |  |  |  | to the U.S. sanctions | vn enforce-63 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sanction=Theme |
| 3 | **sanction** |  |  | similar nature |  |  |  |  | nom sanction «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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