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title: In 1963, Cuba sent 686 troops together with 22 tanks, an anti-tank b… — Cuba · tree and pragmatics
description: In 1963, Cuba sent 686 troops together with 22 tanks, an anti-tank battery, mortars, anti-aircraft artillery, and field guns to Oran to support Algeria in the Sand War against Morocco. Who acts: Cuba. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Cuba» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Cuba, sentence 185

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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 1963, Cuba sent 686 troops together with 22 tanks, an anti-tank battery, mortars, anti-aircraft artillery, and field guns to Oran to support Algeria in the Sand War against Morocco.

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**Who acts:** Cuba · **What happens:** send, support · **To what, where:** 686 troops, 1963, Algeria, Sand 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 (Cuba), 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:185
# text = In 1963, Cuba sent 686 troops together with 22 tanks, an anti-tank battery, mortars, anti-aircraft artillery, and field guns to Oran to support Algeria in the Sand War against Morocco.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	1963	1963	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	Cuba	Cuba	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	686	686	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	troops	troops	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	5	obj	_	_
8	together	together	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	22	22	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
11	tanks	tank	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	anti-tank	anti-tank	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	battery	battery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	mortars	mortar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	anti-aircraft	anti-aircraft	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	artillery	artillery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	guns	gun	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	Oran	Oran	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
28	support	support	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	acl	_	_
29	Algeria	Algeria	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	Sand	Sand	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
33	War	War	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
34	against	against	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	Morocco	Morocco	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **send** | past | Cuba | 686 troops |  | 1963 |  | with 22 tanks; field guns to Oran *obl*; together *property* | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent troops=Theme in 1963=Destination |
| 2 | **support** | to-infinitive | Cuba *not said here* | Algeria |  | the Sand War |  | against Morocco | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer algeria=Stimulus |

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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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