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title: Alfredo Zayas was briefly appointed mayor, followed by the installme… — Havana · tree and pragmatics
description: Alfredo Zayas was briefly appointed mayor, followed by the installment of Miguel Gener y Rincón, the acting Secretary of Justice of Cuba, after winning the 1900 Cuban local elections. Who acts: Alfredo, Rincón, 1900. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Havana» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Havana, sentence 108

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From Wikipedia, [«Havana»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Havana), 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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Alfredo Zayas was briefly appointed mayor, followed by the installment of Miguel Gener y Rincón, the acting Secretary of Justice of Cuba, after winning the 1900 Cuban local elections.

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**Who acts:** Alfredo, Rincón, 1900 · **What happens:** appoint, be, follow, y, act, win · **To what, where:** appointed mayor, Rincón, Secretary, Miguel

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Havana». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Alfredo, Rincón, 1900), 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:Havana:108
# text = Alfredo Zayas was briefly appointed mayor, followed by the installment of Miguel Gener y Rincón, the acting Secretary of Justice of Cuba, after winning the 1900 Cuban local elections.
1	Alfredo	Alfredo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
2	Zayas	Zayas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	briefly	briefly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	appointed	appoint	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	amod	_	_
6	mayor	mayor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	followed	follow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
9	by	by	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	installment	installment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Miguel	Miguel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
14	Gener	Gener	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	flat	_	_
15	y	y	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	Rincón	Rincón	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	acting	act	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	16	acl	_	_
20	Secretary	Secretary	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	Justice	Justice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	Cuba	Cuba	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
27	winning	win	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	conj	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
29	1900	1900	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	32	nsubj	_	_
30	Cuban	Cuban	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
31	local	local	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	elections	election	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **appoint** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | briefly *property* | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | past | Alfredo | appointed mayor |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **follow** | participle |  | appointed mayor *not said here* |  |  |  | by the installment of Miguel | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by installment=Location |
| 4 | **y** | past |  | Rincón |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **act** | gerund | Rincón *not said here* | Secretary of Justice of Cuba |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1-1 «NP V PP.predicate»: agent=Agent secretary=Eventuality |
| 6 | **win** | gerund | Rincón *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **election** |  | 1900 |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **install** |  |  | Miguel |  |  |  |  | nom installment «possession transitive»: of=patient |

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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, «Havana», 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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