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title: Cuba lies some 50 miles (80 km) west of Haiti's northern peninsula,… — Port-au-Prince · tree and pragmatics
description: Cuba lies some 50 miles (80 km) west of Haiti's northern peninsula, across the Windward Passage, a strait connecting the Atlantic to the Caribbean. Who acts: Cuba, strait. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Port-au-Prince» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Port-au-Prince, sentence 46

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From Wikipedia, [«Port-au-Prince»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port-au-Prince), 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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Cuba lies some 50 miles (80 km) west of Haiti's northern peninsula, across the Windward Passage, a strait connecting the Atlantic to the Caribbean.

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**Who acts:** Cuba, strait · **What happens:** lie, connect · **To what, where:** 50 miles, Atlantic

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Port-au-Prince». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Cuba, strait), 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:Port-au-Prince:46
# text = Cuba lies some 50 miles (80 km) west of Haiti's northern peninsula, across the Windward Passage, a strait connecting the Atlantic to the Caribbean.
1	Cuba	Cuba	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	lies	lie	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	5	det	_	_
4	50	50	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	miles	mile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
6	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	80	80	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	km	km	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	8	punct	_	_
10	west	west	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
12	Haiti	Haiti	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	's	's	PART	POS	_	12	case	_	_
14	northern	northern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	peninsula	peninsula	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	across	across	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	Windward	windward	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	Passage	passage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	strait	strait	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	_
24	connecting	connect	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	23	acl	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	Atlantic	Atlantic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	Caribbean	Caribbean	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lie** | present | Cuba | some 50 miles |  |  |  | of Haiti's northern peninsula; the Windward Passage and a strait *parataxis* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location mile=Theme |
| 2 | **connect** | gerund | a strait *not said here* | the Atlantic |  |  |  | to the Caribbean | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent atlantic=Patient to caribbean=Co-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, «Port-au-Prince», 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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