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title: Firmly anti-Communist, Seaga cut ties with Cuba and sent troops to s… — Jamaica · tree and pragmatics
description: Firmly anti-Communist, Seaga cut ties with Cuba and sent troops to support the US invasion of Grenada in 1983. Who acts: Seaga. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Jamaica» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Jamaica, sentence 127

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From Wikipedia, [«Jamaica»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamaica), 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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Firmly anti-Communist, Seaga cut ties with Cuba and sent troops to support the US invasion of Grenada in 1983.

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**Who acts:** Seaga · **What happens:** cut, send, support, invade · **To what, where:** ties, troops, US invasion, 1983, Grenada

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Jamaica». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Seaga), 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:Jamaica:127
# text = Firmly anti-Communist, Seaga cut ties with Cuba and sent troops to support the US invasion of Grenada in 1983.
1	Firmly	firmly	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	anti-Communist	anti-communist	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	Seaga	Seaga	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	cut	cut	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
6	ties	tie	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Cuba	Cuba	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
11	troops	troops	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	10	obj	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	support	support	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	advcl	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	US	US	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	invasion	invasion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	Grenada	Grenada	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	1983	1983	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cut** | past | Seaga | ties |  |  |  | with Cuba | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tie=Patient with cuba=Instrument |
| 2 | **send** | past | Seaga *not said here* | troops |  |  |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent troops=Theme |
| 3 | **support** | to-infinitive | Seaga *not said here* | the US invasion of Grenada |  | 1983 |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer invasion=Stimulus |
| 5 | **invade** |  |  | Grenada |  |  |  |  | nom invasion «act 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, «Jamaica», 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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