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title: Fighting against the Spanish army began in Cuba on 24 February 1895,… — Cuba · tree and pragmatics
description: Fighting against the Spanish army began in Cuba on 24 February 1895, and Martí arrived in April. Who acts: Fighting, Martí. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Cuba» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Cuba, sentence 86

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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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Fighting against the Spanish army began in Cuba on 24 February 1895, and Martí arrived in April.

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**Who acts:** Fighting, Martí · **What happens:** fight, begin, arrive · **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 (Fighting, Martí), 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:86
# text = Fighting against the Spanish army began in Cuba on 24 February 1895, and Martí arrived in April.
1	Fighting	fight	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	csubj	_	_
2	against	against	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	Spanish	Spanish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	army	army	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
6	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Cuba	Cuba	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	24	24	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
11	February	February	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
12	1895	1895	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	Martí	Martí	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	arrived	arrive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	April	April	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fight** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | against the Spanish army | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **begin** | past | Fighting |  |  | Cuba | february |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 3 | **arrive** | past | Martí |  |  |  | april |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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