Mexico, sentence 552

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.

In the first few decades of Spanish presence in the continent, the high level of Christian missionary activity, especially by mendicant orders like the Dominicans or Franciscans, meant the construction of many monasteries, often with Romanesque, Gothic or Mudéjar elements.

What happens: mean, construct · To what, where: construction, many monasteries

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: 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	In	in	ADP	_	5 decades	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 decades	det
3	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	5 decades	amod
4	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 decades	amod
5	decades	decade	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 meant	obl
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 presence	case
7	Spanish	Spanish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 presence	amod
8	presence	presence	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 decades	nmod
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 continent	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 continent	det
11	continent	continent	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 presence	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 level	punct
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 level	det
14	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 level	amod
15	level	level	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 continent	nmod
16	of	of	ADP	_	19 activity	case
17	Christian	Christian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 activity	amod
18	missionary	missionary	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 activity	compound
19	activity	activity	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 level	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 orders	punct
21	especially	especially	ADV	_	24 orders	advmod
22	by	by	ADP	_	24 orders	case
23	mendicant	mendicant	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 orders	compound
24	orders	order	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 activity	nmod
25	like	like	ADP	_	27 Dominicans	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 Dominicans	det
27	Dominicans	Dominican	PROPN	Number=Plur	24 orders	nmod
28	or	or	CCONJ	_	29 Franciscans	cc
29	Franciscans	Franciscan	PROPN	Number=Plur	27 Dominicans	conj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 decades	punct
31	meant	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 construction	det
33	construction	construction	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 meant	obj
34	of	of	ADP	_	36 monasteries	case
35	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 monasteries	amod
36	monasteries	monastery	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 construction	nmod
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 Romanesque	punct
38	often	often	ADV	_	40 Romanesque	advmod
39	with	with	ADP	_	40 Romanesque	case
40	Romanesque	Romanesque	PROPN	Number=Sing	45 elements	compound
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 Gothic	punct
42	Gothic	gothic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 elements	amod
43	or	or	CCONJ	_	44 Mudéjar	cc
44	Mudéjar	mudéjar	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 Gothic	conj
45	elements	element	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 meant	obj
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	31 meant	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	past		the construction of many monasteries			decade	Romanesque Gothic elements obj	tree rules
2	construct			many monasteries					nom construction «act 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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Mexico, sentence 552