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Mexico City, sentence 108

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.

During the 19th century, Mexico City was the center stage of all the political disputes of the country.

Who acts: Mexico, country · What happens: be, dispute · To what, where: center stage

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, country), 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

casedetamodoblpunctnsubjflatcopdetcompoundcasedet:predetdetamodnmodcasedetnmodpunctrootDuringADPtheDET19thADJcenturyNOUN,PUNCTMexicoPROPNCityPROPNwasAUXtheDETcenterNOUNstageNOUNofADPallDETtheDETpoliticalADJdisputesNOUNofADPtheDETcountryNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1DuringduringADP_4 centurycase
2thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art4 centurydet
319th19thADJDegree=Pos NumForm=Combi NumType=Ord4 centuryamod
4centurycenturyNOUNNumber=Sing11 stageobl
5,,PUNCT_4 centurypunct
6MexicoMexicoPROPNNumber=Sing11 stagensubj
7CityCityPROPNNumber=Sing6 Mexicoflat
8wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin11 stagecop
9thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art11 stagedet
10centercenterNOUNNumber=Sing11 stagecompound
11stagestageNOUNNumber=Singrootroot
12ofofADP_16 disputescase
13allallDETPronType=Tot16 disputesdet:predet
14thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art16 disputesdet
15politicalpoliticalADJDegree=Pos16 disputesamod
16disputesdisputeNOUNNumber=Plur11 stagenmod
17ofofADP_19 countrycase
18thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art19 countrydet
19countrycountryNOUNNumber=Sing16 disputesnmod
20..PUNCT_11 stagepunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1is apastMexicothe center stagecenturyof all political disputes of the countrytree rules
2disputethe countrynom dispute «communication intransitive»: of=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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