Mexico, sentence 485
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.
Although the Constitutions of 1857 and 1917 put limits on the role of the Catholic Church in Mexico, Catholicism remains Mexico's dominant religious affiliation.
Who acts: Constitutions, Catholicism, Mexico · What happens: put, remain, affiliate · To what, where: limits, role, dominant religious affiliation
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 (Constitutions, Catholicism, Mexico), 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 | Although | although | SCONJ | _ | 8 put | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Constitutions | det |
| 3 | Constitutions | Constitution | PROPN | Number=Plur | 8 put | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 1857 | case |
| 5 | 1857 | 1857 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 Constitutions | nmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 1917 | cc |
| 7 | 1917 | 1917 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 1857 | conj |
| 8 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | limits | limit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 put | obj |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 role | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 role | det |
| 12 | role | role | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 put | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 Church | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Church | det |
| 15 | Catholic | Catholic | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Church | compound |
| 16 | Church | Church | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 role | nmod |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 Mexico | case |
| 18 | Mexico | Mexico | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Church | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 remains | punct |
| 20 | Catholicism | Catholicism | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 remains | nsubj |
| 21 | remains | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 Church | acl:relcl |
| 22 | Mexico | Mexico | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 affiliation | nmod:poss |
| 23 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 22 Mexico | case |
| 24 | dominant | dominant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 affiliation | amod |
| 25 | religious | religious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 affiliation | amod |
| 26 | affiliation | affiliation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 remains | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | past | the Constitutions of 1857 | limits | the role of the Catholic Church in Mexico | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent limit=Theme on role=Destination | |||
| 2 | remain | present | Catholicism | Mexico's dominant religious affiliation | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme affiliation=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | affiliate | Mexico | nom affiliation «state intransitive»: poss=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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