Mexico, sentence 123
From Wikipedia, «Mexico», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.
The Mexican Army, which originated in the colonial royalist forces and transitioned into the early Republic military, was effectively destroyed following its defeat by Liberal forces in the Reform War and subsequently by the French intervention, enabling the emergence of a new generation of military leaders during the restoration of the Republic.
Who acts: Mexican Army, army, new generation · What happens: originate, transition, destroy, follow, enable, defeat · To what, where: colonial royalist forces, early Republic military, Mexican Army, defeat, emergence
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Mexico». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mexican Army, army, new generation), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Army | det |
| 2 | Mexican | Mexican | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Army | amod |
| 3 | Army | Army | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 destroyed | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 originated | punct |
| 5 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 originated | nsubj |
| 6 | originated | originate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 Army | acl:relcl |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 forces | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 forces | det |
| 9 | colonial | colonial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 forces | amod |
| 10 | royalist | royalist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 forces | compound |
| 11 | forces | force | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 originated | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 transitioned | cc |
| 13 | transitioned | transition | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 forces | conj |
| 14 | into | into | ADP | _ | 18 military | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 military | det |
| 16 | early | early | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 military | amod |
| 17 | Republic | Republic | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 military | compound |
| 18 | military | military | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 transitioned | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Army | punct |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 destroyed | aux:pass |
| 21 | effectively | effectively | ADV | _ | 22 destroyed | advmod |
| 22 | destroyed | destroy | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 23 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 22 destroyed | xcomp |
| 24 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 defeat | nmod:poss |
| 25 | defeat | defeat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 following | obj |
| 26 | by | by | ADP | _ | 28 forces | case |
| 27 | Liberal | liberal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 forces | amod |
| 28 | forces | force | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 following | obl |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 War | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 War | det |
| 31 | Reform | Reform | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 War | compound |
| 32 | War | War | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 forces | nmod |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 intervention | cc |
| 34 | subsequently | subsequently | ADV | _ | 38 intervention | advmod |
| 35 | by | by | ADP | _ | 38 intervention | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 intervention | det |
| 37 | French | French | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 intervention | amod |
| 38 | intervention | intervention | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 War | conj |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 enabling | punct |
| 40 | enabling | enable | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 23 following | conj |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 emergence | det |
| 42 | emergence | emergence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 enabling | obj |
| 43 | of | of | ADP | _ | 46 generation | case |
| 44 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 46 generation | det |
| 45 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 generation | amod |
| 46 | generation | generation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 emergence | nmod |
| 47 | of | of | ADP | _ | 49 leaders | case |
| 48 | military | military | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 49 leaders | amod |
| 49 | leaders | leader | NOUN | Number=Plur | 46 generation | nmod |
| 50 | during | during | ADP | _ | 52 restoration | case |
| 51 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 52 restoration | det |
| 52 | restoration | restoration | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 enabling | obl |
| 53 | of | of | ADP | _ | 55 Republic | case |
| 54 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 55 Republic | det |
| 55 | Republic | Republic | PROPN | Number=Sing | 52 restoration | nmod |
| 56 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 destroyed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | originate | past | the Mexican Army | the colonial royalist forces | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | transition | participle | the Mexican Army not said here | the early Republic military | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | destroy | past · passive | the Mexican Army | effectively property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | follow | gerund | army's defeat | by Liberal forces in the Reform War and the French intervention | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent defeat=Theme by force=Trajectory | ||||
| 5 | enable | gerund | the emergence of a new generation of military leaders | during the restoration of the Republic | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | defeat | army | nom defeat «event transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 7 | emerge | a new generation of military leaders | nom emergence «event intransitive»: of=agent |
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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