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title: In February 2008, Castro resigned as President of the State Council… — Cuba · tree and pragmatics
description: In February 2008, Castro resigned as President of the State Council due to illness. Who acts: Castro. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Cuba» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Cuba, sentence 240

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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 February 2008, Castro resigned as President of the State Council due to illness.

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**Who acts:** Castro · **What happens:** resign

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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 (Castro), 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:240
# text = In February 2008, Castro resigned as President of the State Council due to illness.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	February	February	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
3	2008	2008	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
5	Castro	Castro	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	resigned	resign	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	as	as	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	President	President	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	State	State	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	Council	Council	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
13	due	due	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	15	case	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	fixed	_	_
15	illness	illness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **resign** | past | Castro |  |  |  | february | as President of the State Council; due illness | vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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