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title: According to experts, the private sale of property could "transform… — Cuba · tree and pragmatics
description: According to experts, the private sale of property could "transform Cuba more than any of the economic reforms announced by Cuban leader Raúl Castro's government". Who acts: private sale. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Cuba» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Cuba, sentence 435

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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 experts, the private sale of property could "transform Cuba more than any of the economic reforms announced by Cuban leader Raúl Castro's government".

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**Who acts:** private sale · **What happens:** accord, transform, announce · **To what, where:** more, economic reforms

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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 (private sale), 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:435
# text = According to experts, the private sale of property could "transform Cuba more than any of the economic reforms announced by Cuban leader Raúl Castro's government".
1	According	accord	VERB	VBG	ExtPos=ADP|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	case	_	_
2	to	to	ADP	IN	_	1	fixed	_	_
3	experts	expert	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	private	private	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	sale	sale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	property	property	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	transform	transform	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
13	Cuba	Cuba	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	12	obj	_	_
15	than	than	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	14	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	economic	economic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	reforms	reform	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	_
21	announced	announce	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	acl	_	_
22	by	by	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	Cuban	Cuban	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	leader	leader	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
25	Raúl	Raúl	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	nmod:poss	_	_
26	Castro	Castro	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	's	's	PART	POS	_	25	case	_	_
28	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	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 | **transform** *in a quote* | could | the private sale of property | more  Cuba |  |  |  | accord experts | vn turn-26.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Patient |
| 3 | **announce** *speech: other* *in a quote* | participle |  | the economic reforms *not said here* |  |  |  | by Cuban leader  Raúl's government | vn order-58.3 «NP V S»: agent=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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