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title: He is the first non-Castro to be in such top position since the Cuba… — Cuba · tree and pragmatics
description: He is the first non-Castro to be in such top position since the Cuban Revolution of 1959. Who acts: Díaz. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Cuba» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Cuba, sentence 335

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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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He is the first non-Castro to be in such top position since the Cuban Revolution of 1959.

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**Who acts:** Díaz · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** first non-Castro, such top position

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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 (Díaz), 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:335
# text = He is the first non-Castro to be in such top position since the Cuban Revolution of 1959.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	5	amod	_	_
5	non-Castro	non-castro	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
7	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	cop	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	top	top	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	position	position	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	advcl	_	_
12	since	since	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	Cuban	Cuban	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	Revolution	Revolution	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	1959	1959	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Díaz | the first non-Castro |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | to-infinitive | Díaz *not said here* |  |  | such top position | since the Cuban Revolution of 1959 |  | tree rules |

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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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