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title: On 2 August 2011, The New York Times reported that Cuba reaffirmed i… — Cuba · tree and pragmatics
description: On 2 August 2011, The New York Times reported that Cuba reaffirmed its intent to legalize "buying and selling" of private property before the year's end. Who acts: Cuba, Times. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Cuba» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Cuba, sentence 434

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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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On 2 August 2011, The New York Times reported that Cuba reaffirmed its intent to legalize "buying and selling" of private property before the year's end.

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**Who acts:** Cuba, Times · **What happens:** report, reaffirm, legalize, buy, sell, intend · **To what, where:** York Times, intent

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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, Times), 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:434
# text = On 2 August 2011, The New York Times reported that Cuba reaffirmed its intent to legalize "buying and selling" of private property before the year's end.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	2	2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	August	August	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
4	2011	2011	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
6	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	New	New	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	flat	_	_
8	York	York	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	Times	Times	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl:unmarked	_	_
10	reported	report	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
12	Cuba	Cuba	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	reaffirmed	reaffirm	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	ccomp	_	_
14	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	intent	intent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	legalize	legalize	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
18	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	buying	buy	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	advcl	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	selling	sell	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	25	punct	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	private	private	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	property	property	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
26	before	before	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	's	's	PART	POS	_	28	case	_	_
30	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **report** | past |  | the York Times |  |  | august |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **reaffirm** | past | Cuba | Times's intent |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **legalize** | to-infinitive | Cuba *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **buy** *in a quote* | gerund | Cuba *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn accept-77.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **sell** *in a quote* | gerund | Cuba *not said here* |  |  |  | before the year's end | of private property | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **intend** |  | Times |  |  |  |  |  | nom intent «cognition transitive»: poss=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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