Mexico City, sentence 13
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.
In 1524, the municipality of Mexico City was established as México Tenochtitlán, and from 1585 onward it was officially known as Ciudad de México.
What happens: establish, know · To what, where: municipality, 1524, 1585
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: 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 | _ | 2 1524 | case |
| 2 | 1524 | 1524 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 10 established | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 1524 | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 municipality | det |
| 5 | municipality | municipality | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 established | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 City | case |
| 7 | Mexico | Mexico | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 City | compound |
| 8 | City | City | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 municipality | nmod |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 established | aux:pass |
| 10 | established | establish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 11 | as | as | ADP | _ | 12 México | case |
| 12 | México | México | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 established | obl |
| 13 | Tenochtitlán | Tenochtitlán | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 México | flat |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 known | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 known | cc |
| 16 | from | from | ADP | _ | 17 1585 | case |
| 17 | 1585 | 1585 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 22 known | obl |
| 18 | onward | onward | ADV | _ | 17 1585 | advmod |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 known | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 known | aux:pass |
| 21 | officially | officially | ADV | _ | 22 known | advmod |
| 22 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 established | conj |
| 23 | as | as | ADP | _ | 24 Ciudad | case |
| 24 | Ciudad | Ciudad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 known | obl |
| 25 | de | de | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Ciudad | flat |
| 26 | México | México | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Ciudad | flat |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 established | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | establish | past · passive | the municipality of Mexico City | 1524 | as México | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||
| 2 | know | past · passive | municipality | 1585 | as Ciudad; officially property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus as ciudad=Attribute |
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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