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title: Between 200,000 and 400,000 Cuban civilians died from starvation and… — Cuba · tree and pragmatics
description: Between 200,000 and 400,000 Cuban civilians died from starvation and disease in the Spanish concentration camps, numbers verified by the Red Cross and United States Senator Redfield Proctor, a former Secretary of War. Who acts: Cuban civilians. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Cuba» with its dependency tr
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# Cuba, sentence 93

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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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Between 200,000 and 400,000 Cuban civilians died from starvation and disease in the Spanish concentration camps, numbers verified by the Red Cross and United States Senator Redfield Proctor, a former Secretary of War.

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**Who acts:** Cuban civilians · **What happens:** die, verify · **To what, where:** starvation, numbers

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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 (Cuban civilians), 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:93
# text = Between 200,000 and 400,000 Cuban civilians died from starvation and disease in the Spanish concentration camps, numbers verified by the Red Cross and United States Senator Redfield Proctor, a former Secretary of War.
1	Between	between	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	200,000	200000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	obl	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	400,000	400,000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	conj	_	_
5	Cuban	Cuban	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	civilians	civilian	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	died	die	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	starvation	starvation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	disease	disease	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
14	Spanish	Spanish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
15	concentration	concentration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	camps	camp	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	numbers	number	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	_
19	verified	verify	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	acl	_	_
20	by	by	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	Red	Red	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	flat	_	_
23	Cross	Cross	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
25	United	United	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	States	State	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	27	compound	_	_
27	Senator	Senator	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	_
28	Redfield	Redfield	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	flat	_	_
29	Proctor	proctor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	former	former	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	Secretary	Secretary	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	War	War	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **die** | past | Cuban civilians |  |  | starvation and disease |  | between 200,000; in the Spanish concentration camps and numbers | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in camp=Attribute |
| 2 | **verify** | participle |  | numbers *not said here* |  |  |  | by the Red Cross and States Senator and Proctor and a former Secretary of War | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V»: 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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