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title: Christopher Columbus first arrived in Cuba on 27 October 1492 during… — Cuba · tree and pragmatics
description: Christopher Columbus first arrived in Cuba on 27 October 1492 during his famous first voyage and landed the following day. Who acts: Christopher, Cuba. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Cuba» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Cuba, sentence 46

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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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Christopher Columbus first arrived in Cuba on 27 October 1492 during his famous first voyage and landed the following day.

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**Who acts:** Christopher, Cuba · **What happens:** arrive, land, follow, voyage · **To what, where:** Cuba

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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 (Christopher, Cuba), 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:46
# text = Christopher Columbus first arrived in Cuba on 27 October 1492 during his famous first voyage and landed the following day.
1	Christopher	Christopher	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	Columbus	Columbus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	4	advmod	_	_
4	arrived	arrive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Cuba	Cuba	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	27	27	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	obl	_	_
9	October	October	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod:unmarked	_	_
10	1492	1492	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	conj	_	_
11	during	during	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
13	famous	famous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
14	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	15	amod	_	_
15	voyage	voyage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	landed	land	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	following	follow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	20	amod	_	_
20	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **arrive** | past | Christopher |  |  | Cuba | during Cuba's famous first voyage | on 27; first *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **land** | past | Christopher *not said here* |  |  |  | day |  | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **follow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **voyage** |  | Cuba |  |  |  |  |  | nom voyage «act 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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