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title: The failed amphibious assault on Cuba contributed to the Soviet deci… — Cuba · tree and pragmatics
description: The failed amphibious assault on Cuba contributed to the Soviet decision to deploy R-12 missiles there, and the ensuing Cuban Missile Crisis of October 1962 almost sparked World War III. Who acts: failed amphibious assault. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Cuba» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Cuba, sentence 175

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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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The failed amphibious assault on Cuba contributed to the Soviet decision to deploy R-12 missiles there, and the ensuing Cuban Missile Crisis of October 1962 almost sparked World War III.

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**Who acts:** failed amphibious assault · **What happens:** fail, contribute, deploy, ensue, spark · **To what, where:** the, Soviet decision, R 12 missiles, Cuban Missile Crisis, World War

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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 (failed amphibious assault), 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:175
# text = The failed amphibious assault on Cuba contributed to the Soviet decision to deploy R-12 missiles there, and the ensuing Cuban Missile Crisis of October 1962 almost sparked World War III.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	failed	fail	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	amod	_	_
3	amphibious	amphibious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	assault	assault	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Cuba	Cuba	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	contributed	contribute	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	Soviet	Soviet	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	decision	decision	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	deploy	deploy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	advcl	_	_
14	R	R	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	12	12	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
17	missiles	missile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
18	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	obj	_	_
22	ensuing	ensue	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	21	acl	_	_
23	Cuban	Cuban	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
24	Missile	Missile	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	Crisis	Crisis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	October	October	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
28	1962	1962	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	25	flat	_	_
29	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	sparked	spark	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	advcl	_	_
31	World	World	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
32	War	War	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
33	III	III	NUM	CD	NumForm=Roman|NumType=Card	32	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fail** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **contribute** | past | the failed amphibious assault on Cuba | the | the Soviet decision |  |  |  | vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent the=Theme to decision=Recipient |
| 3 | **deploy** | to-infinitive | the failed amphibious assault on Cuba *not said here* | R 12 missiles |  | there |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **ensue** | gerund |  | Cuban Missile Crisis of October |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **spark** | past |  | World War |  |  |  | almost *property* | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition war=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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