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title: Che Guevara, authorized by Castro, engaged in guerrilla activities i… — Cuba · tree and pragmatics
description: Che Guevara, authorized by Castro, engaged in guerrilla activities in Africa and was killed in 1967 while attempting to start a revolution in Bolivia. Who acts: Che. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Cuba» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Cuba, sentence 188

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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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Che Guevara, authorized by Castro, engaged in guerrilla activities in Africa and was killed in 1967 while attempting to start a revolution in Bolivia.

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**Who acts:** Che · **What happens:** authorize, engage, kill, attempt, start · **To what, where:** guerrilla activities, 1967, revolution, Bolivia

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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 (Che), 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:188
# text = Che Guevara, authorized by Castro, engaged in guerrilla activities in Africa and was killed in 1967 while attempting to start a revolution in Bolivia.
1	Che	Che	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	Guevara	Guevara	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	authorized	authorize	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Castro	Castro	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	engaged	engage	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	guerrilla	guerrilla	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	activities	activity	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Africa	Africa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	killed	kill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	1967	1967	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	16	obl	_	_
19	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
20	attempting	attempt	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	advcl	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	start	start	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	xcomp	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	revolution	revolution	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	Bolivia	Bolivia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **authorize** | participle | Che |  |  |  |  | by Castro | vn allow-64.1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Causer |
| 2 | **engage** | participle | Che *not said here* |  |  |  |  | in guerrilla activities in Africa *goal* | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent in activity=Goal |
| 3 | **kill** | past · passive | Che *not said here* |  |  | 1967 |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» |
| 4 | **attempt** | gerund | Che *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 5 | **start** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Che *not said here* | a revolution |  | Bolivia |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent revolution=Eventuality |

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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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