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description: According to Arturo Lopez Levy, a professor of international relations, it would be more appropriate to refer to the measure as a "blockade" or "siege", as it goes beyond mere trade restrictions. Who acts: embargo. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Cuba» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Cuba, sentence 366

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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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According to Arturo Lopez Levy, a professor of international relations, it would be more appropriate to refer to the measure as a "blockade" or "siege", as it goes beyond mere trade restrictions.

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**Who acts:** embargo · **What happens:** accord, be, refer, go · **To what, where:** mere trade restrictions

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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 (embargo), 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:366
# text = According to Arturo Lopez Levy, a professor of international relations, it would be more appropriate to refer to the measure as a "blockade" or "siege", as it goes beyond mere trade restrictions.
1	According	accord	VERB	VBG	ExtPos=ADP|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	case	_	_
2	to	to	ADP	IN	_	1	fixed	_	_
3	Arturo	Arturo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	Lopez	Lopez	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
5	Levy	Levy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	professor	professor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	international	international	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	relations	relation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
14	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
15	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	cop	_	_
16	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	17	advmod	_	_
17	appropriate	appropriate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	refer	refer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	advcl	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	measure	measure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
23	as	as	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	blockade	blockade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	26	punct	_	_
28	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
29	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	siege	siege	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
33	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	35	mark	_	_
34	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
35	goes	go	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	advcl	_	_
36	beyond	beyond	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
37	mere	mere	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
38	trade	trade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	compound	_	_
39	restrictions	restriction	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **accord** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | would | embargo |  |  |  |  | accord Arturo Lopez; appropriate *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **refer** | to-infinitive | embargo *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to the measure; as a blockade or siege | vn relate-86.2-2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to measure=Co-Theme |
| 4 | **go** | present | embargo |  |  | mere trade restrictions |  |  | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme beyond restriction=Location |

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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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