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title: In 2022 Cuba approved a referendum which amended the Family Code to… — Cuba · tree and pragmatics
description: In 2022 Cuba approved a referendum which amended the Family Code to legalise same-sex marriage and allow surrogate pregnancy and same-sex adoption. Who acts: Cuba, referendum. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Cuba» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Cuba, sentence 396

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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 2022 Cuba approved a referendum which amended the Family Code to legalise same-sex marriage and allow surrogate pregnancy and same-sex adoption.

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**Who acts:** Cuba, referendum · **What happens:** approve, amend, legalise, allow · **To what, where:** referendum, 2022, Family Code, sex marriage, surrogate pregnancy

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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 (Cuba, referendum), 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:396
# text = In 2022 Cuba approved a referendum which amended the Family Code to legalise same-sex marriage and allow surrogate pregnancy and same-sex adoption.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	2022	2022	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	obl	_	_
3	Cuba	Cuba	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	approved	approve	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	referendum	referendum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
8	amended	amend	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	Family	Family	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	Code	Code	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	legalise	legalise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	advcl	_	_
14	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	sex	sex	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	marriage	marriage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	allow	allow	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
20	surrogate	surrogate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	pregnancy	pregnancy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
23	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	sex	sex	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	adoption	adoption	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **approve** | past | Cuba | a referendum |  | 2022 |  |  | vn allow-64.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent referendum=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **amend** | past | a referendum | the Family Code |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **legalise** | to-infinitive | a referendum *not said here* | sex marriage |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **allow** | present | a referendum *not said here* | surrogate pregnancy and sex adoption |  |  |  |  | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pregnancy=Beneficiary |

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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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