Mexico, sentence 31
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.
Mēxihko is the Nahuatl term for the heartland of the Aztec Empire, namely the Valley of Mexico and surrounding territories, with its people being known as the Mexica.
Who acts: Mēxihko · What happens: be, surround, know · To what, where: Nahuatl term, people
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 (Mēxihko), 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 | Mēxihko | Mēxihko | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 term | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 term | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 term | det |
| 4 | Nahuatl | Nahuatl | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 term | compound |
| 5 | term | term | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 heartland | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 heartland | det |
| 8 | heartland | heartland | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 term | nmod |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 Empire | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Empire | det |
| 11 | Aztec | Aztec | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Empire | compound |
| 12 | Empire | Empire | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 heartland | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 Valley | punct |
| 14 | namely | namely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 Valley | amod |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Valley | det |
| 16 | Valley | Valley | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 term | appos |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 Mexico | case |
| 18 | Mexico | Mexico | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Valley | nmod |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 territories | cc |
| 20 | surrounding | surround | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 21 territories | amod |
| 21 | territories | territory | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 Valley | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 known | punct |
| 23 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 27 known | mark |
| 24 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 people | nmod:poss |
| 25 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 known | nsubj:pass |
| 26 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 27 known | aux:pass |
| 27 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 term | parataxis |
| 28 | as | as | ADP | _ | 30 Mexica | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 Mexica | det |
| 30 | Mexica | Mexica | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 known | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 term | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Mēxihko | the Nahuatl term | for the heartland of the Aztec Empire; the namely Valley of Mexico and surrounding territories appos | tree rules | |||
| 2 | surround | gerund | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | know | gerund · passive | territory's people | as the Mexica | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus as mexica=Attribute |
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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