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title: The country faced a severe economic downturn following the withdrawa… — Cuba · tree and pragmatics
description: The country faced a severe economic downturn following the withdrawal of Soviet subsidies worth $4 billion to $6 billion annually, resulting in effects such as food and fuel shortages. Who acts: country. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Cuba» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Cuba, sentence 231

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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 country faced a severe economic downturn following the withdrawal of Soviet subsidies worth $4 billion to $6 billion annually, resulting in effects such as food and fuel shortages.

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**Who acts:** country · **What happens:** face, follow, result, withdraw · **To what, where:** severe economic downturn, effects, Soviet subsidies

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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 (country), 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:231
# text = The country faced a severe economic downturn following the withdrawal of Soviet subsidies worth $4 billion to $6 billion annually, resulting in effects such as food and fuel shortages.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	faced	face	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	severe	severe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	economic	economic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	downturn	downturn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
8	following	follow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	withdrawal	withdrawal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	Soviet	soviet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	subsidies	subsidy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	_
14	worth	worth	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	$	$	SYM	$	_	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	4	4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	17	compound	_	_
17	billion	billion	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	$	$	SYM	$	_	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	6	6	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	21	nummod	_	_
21	billion	billion	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	nummod	_	_
22	annually	annually	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	resulting	result	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	effects	effect	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	_
27	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	29	case	_	_
28	as	as	ADP	IN	_	27	fixed	_	_
29	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
31	fuel	fuel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
32	shortages	shortage	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **face** | past | the country | a severe economic downturn |  |  |  | follow the withdrawal of Soviet subsidies | tree rules |
| 2 | **follow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **result** | gerund | the country *not said here* |  |  | effects such food and fuel shortages |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in effect=Location |
| 4 | **withdraw** |  |  | Soviet subsidies |  |  |  |  | nom withdrawal «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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