Mexico, sentence 541
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.
They were commissioned by the Mexican government to paint large-scale historical murals on the walls of public buildings, which helped shape popular perceptions of the Mexican Revolution and Mexican cultural identity.
Who acts: Mexican government, public buildings · What happens: commission, paint, help, shape, perceive · To what, where: painters, large scale, walls, popular perceptions, Mexican Revolution
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 government, public buildings), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 commissioned | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 commissioned | aux:pass |
| 3 | commissioned | commission | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 government | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 government | det |
| 6 | Mexican | Mexican | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 government | amod |
| 7 | government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 commissioned | obl:agent |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 paint | mark |
| 9 | paint | paint | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 commissioned | advcl |
| 10 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 scale | amod |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 large | punct |
| 12 | scale | scale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 paint | obj |
| 13 | historical | historical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 murals | amod |
| 14 | murals | mural | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 paint | obj |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 walls | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 walls | det |
| 17 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 paint | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 buildings | case |
| 19 | public | public | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 buildings | amod |
| 20 | buildings | building | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 walls | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 helped | punct |
| 22 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 helped | nsubj |
| 23 | helped | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 buildings | acl:relcl |
| 24 | shape | shape | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 helped | xcomp |
| 25 | popular | popular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 perceptions | amod |
| 26 | perceptions | perception | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 shape | obj |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 Revolution | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 Revolution | det |
| 29 | Mexican | Mexican | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 Revolution | amod |
| 30 | Revolution | Revolution | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 perceptions | nmod |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 identity | cc |
| 32 | Mexican | Mexican | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 identity | amod |
| 33 | cultural | cultural | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 identity | amod |
| 34 | identity | identity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 Revolution | conj |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 commissioned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | commission | past · passive | the Mexican government | painters = painter | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | paint | to-infinitive | the Mexican government not said here | large scale | the walls of public buildings | historical murals obj | vn coloring-24 «NP V NP ADJP»: agent=Agent scale=Patient mural=Result | ||
| 3 | help | past | public buildings | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | shape | infinitive | public buildings not said here | popular perceptions of the Mexican Revolution and Mexican cultural identity | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset perception=Product | ||||
| 5 | perceive | the Mexican Revolution and Mexican cultural identity | nom perception «cognition transitive»: of=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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