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title: Fidel Castro wrote that Cuba would not rejoin the OAS, which he said… — Cuba · tree and pragmatics
description: Fidel Castro wrote that Cuba would not rejoin the OAS, which he said was a "U.S. Trojan horse" and "complicit" in actions taken by the U.S. against Cuba and other Latin American nations. Who acts: Fidel, Cuba, OAS. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Cuba» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Cuba, sentence 246

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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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Fidel Castro wrote that Cuba would not rejoin the OAS, which he said was a "U.S. Trojan horse" and "complicit" in actions taken by the U.S. against Cuba and other Latin American nations.

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**Who acts:** Fidel, Cuba, OAS · **What happens:** write, not rejoin, say, be, take · **To what, where:** OAS, U.S. Trojan horse, actions · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Fidel, Cuba, OAS), 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:246
# text = Fidel Castro wrote that Cuba would not rejoin the OAS, which he said was a "U.S. Trojan horse" and "complicit" in actions taken by the U.S. against Cuba and other Latin American nations.
1	Fidel	Fidel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	Castro	Castro	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	wrote	write	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
5	Cuba	Cuba	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
6	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
8	rejoin	rejoin	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	OAS	OAS	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	obj	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
17	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	U.S.	U.S.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
19	Trojan	trojan	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	20	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	complicit	complicit	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	24	punct	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	actions	action	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	_
28	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	acl	_	_
29	by	by	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	U.S.	U.S.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
32	against	against	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	Cuba	Cuba	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
35	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
36	Latin	Latin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	compound	_	_
37	American	American	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	nations	nation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **write** | past | Fidel |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **not** **rejoin** | would | Cuba |  |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | OAS | the OAS |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent which=Topic |
| 4 | **is a** *in a quote* | past | the OAS | a U.S. Trojan horse |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **be** *in a quote* |  | the OAS *not said here* |  |  | actions |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **take** | participle |  | actions *not said here* |  |  |  | by the U.S.; against Cuba and other Latin American nations | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent against cuba=Destination |

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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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