Mexico, sentence 611
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.
Similarly, some cooking techniques used today are inherited from pre-Columbian peoples, such as the nixtamalization of corn, the cooking of food in ovens at ground level, grinding in molcajete and metate.
Who acts: food · What happens: use, inherit, grind, cook · To what, where: cooking techniques, molcajete, ovens
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 (food), 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 | Similarly | similarly | ADV | _ | 9 inherited | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Similarly | punct |
| 3 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 5 techniques | det |
| 4 | cooking | cooking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 techniques | compound |
| 5 | techniques | technique | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 inherited | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 techniques | acl |
| 7 | today | today | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 used | obl:unmarked |
| 8 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 inherited | aux:pass |
| 9 | inherited | inherit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 peoples | case |
| 11 | pre-Columbian | pre-columbian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 peoples | amod |
| 12 | peoples | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 inherited | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 nixtamalization | punct |
| 14 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 17 nixtamalization | case |
| 15 | as | as | ADP | _ | 14 such | fixed |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 nixtamalization | det |
| 17 | nixtamalization | nixtamalization | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 peoples | nmod |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 corn | case |
| 19 | corn | corn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 nixtamalization | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 cooking | punct |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 cooking | det |
| 22 | cooking | cooking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 nixtamalization | conj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 food | case |
| 24 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 cooking | nmod |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 ovens | case |
| 26 | ovens | oven | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 cooking | nmod |
| 27 | at | at | ADP | _ | 29 level | case |
| 28 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 level | compound |
| 29 | level | level | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 ovens | nmod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 grinding | punct |
| 31 | grinding | grind | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 inherited | advcl |
| 32 | in | in | ADP | _ | 33 molcajete | case |
| 33 | molcajete | molcajete | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 grinding | obl |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 metate | cc |
| 35 | metate | metate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 molcajete | conj |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 inherited | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | participle | some cooking techniques not said here | today | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | inherit | present · passive | some cooking techniques | from pre-Columbian peoples such the nixtamalization of corn and the cooking of food in ovens at ground level; similarly property | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme from people=Source | ||||
| 3 | grind | gerund | molcajete and metate | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 4 | cook | food | ovens at ground level | nom cooking «act intransitive»: of=agent in=place |
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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