Mexico City, sentence 10
From Wikipedia, «Mexico City», 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.
Mexico City is the oldest capital city in the Americas and one of only two founded by Indigenous peoples.
Who acts: Mexico City · What happens: be, found · To what, where: oldest capital city, Americas
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Mexico City». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mexico City), 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 | Mexico | Mexico | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 City | compound |
| 2 | City | City | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 city | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 city | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 city | det |
| 5 | oldest | old | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 7 city | amod |
| 6 | capital | capital | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 city | compound |
| 7 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 Americas | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Americas | det |
| 10 | Americas | AMERICAS | PROPN | Number=Plur | 7 city | nmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 one | cc |
| 12 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 city | conj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 two | case |
| 14 | only | only | ADV | _ | 15 two | advmod |
| 15 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 one | nmod |
| 16 | founded | found | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 one | acl |
| 17 | by | by | ADP | _ | 19 peoples | case |
| 18 | Indigenous | indigenous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 peoples | amod |
| 19 | peoples | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 founded | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 city | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Mexico City | the oldest capital city | the Americas | one of two conj | tree rules | ||
| 2 | found | participle | by Indigenous peoples | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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.
Text: the English Wikipedia, «Mexico City», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. Tree: Mova's own parse, CC BY-SA 4.0 as the text is. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the article read in order, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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