Mexico, sentence 522
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.
Efforts to assimilate the native population into Christian European culture during the colonial era were only partially successful, with many pre-Columbian customs, traditions, and norms persisting regionally (particularly in rural areas) or becoming syncretized; conversely, many Spanish settlers integrated into local communities through acculturation or intermarriage.
Who acts: Efforts, norms · What happens: assimilate, be, persist, become, syncretize, integrate · To what, where: native population, Christian European culture, many Spanish settlers
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 (Efforts, norms), 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 | Efforts | effort | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 successful | nsubj |
| 2 | to | to | PART | _ | 3 assimilate | mark |
| 3 | assimilate | assimilate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Efforts | acl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 population | det |
| 5 | native | native | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 population | amod |
| 6 | population | population | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 assimilate | obj |
| 7 | into | into | ADP | _ | 10 culture | case |
| 8 | Christian | Christian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 culture | amod |
| 9 | European | European | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 culture | amod |
| 10 | culture | culture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 assimilate | obl |
| 11 | during | during | ADP | _ | 14 era | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 era | det |
| 13 | colonial | colonial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 era | amod |
| 14 | era | era | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 assimilate | obl |
| 15 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 successful | cop |
| 16 | only | only | ADV | _ | 18 successful | advmod |
| 17 | partially | partially | ADV | _ | 18 successful | advmod |
| 18 | successful | successful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 customs | punct |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 customs | case |
| 21 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 customs | amod |
| 22 | pre-Columbian | pre-columbian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 customs | amod |
| 23 | customs | custom | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 successful | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 traditions | punct |
| 25 | traditions | tradition | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 customs | conj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 norms | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 norms | cc |
| 28 | norms | norm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 successful | conj |
| 29 | persisting | persist | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 28 norms | acl |
| 30 | regionally | regionally | ADV | _ | 29 persisting | advmod |
| 31 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 35 areas | punct |
| 32 | particularly | particularly | ADV | _ | 35 areas | advmod |
| 33 | in | in | ADP | _ | 35 areas | case |
| 34 | rural | rural | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 areas | amod |
| 35 | areas | area | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 norms | appos |
| 36 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 35 areas | punct |
| 37 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 38 becoming | cc |
| 38 | becoming | become | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 successful | conj |
| 39 | syncretized | syncretize | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 38 becoming | xcomp |
| 40 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 45 settlers | punct |
| 41 | conversely | conversely | ADV | _ | 45 settlers | advmod |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 conversely | punct |
| 43 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 settlers | amod |
| 44 | Spanish | Spanish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 settlers | amod |
| 45 | settlers | settler | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 successful | conj |
| 46 | integrated | integrate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 45 settlers | acl |
| 47 | into | into | ADP | _ | 49 communities | case |
| 48 | local | local | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 49 communities | amod |
| 49 | communities | community | NOUN | Number=Plur | 46 integrated | obl |
| 50 | through | through | ADP | _ | 51 acculturation | case |
| 51 | acculturation | acculturation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 integrated | obl |
| 52 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 53 intermarriage | cc |
| 53 | intermarriage | intermarriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 51 acculturation | conj |
| 54 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 successful | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | assimilate | to-infinitive | Efforts not said here | the native population | Christian European culture | during the colonial era | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent population=Patient | ||
| 2 | is | past | Efforts | with many pre-Columbian customs and traditions; norms conj; many Spanish settlers conj; partially, successful property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | persist | gerund | norms not said here | regionally property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | become | gerund | Efforts not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | syncretize | participle | Efforts not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | integrate | participle | many Spanish settlers not said here | through acculturation or intermarriage; into local communities | vn amalgamate-22.2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent into community=Co-Patient |
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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