Mexico City, sentence 16
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.
After years of demands for greater political autonomy, residents won the right to elect both the head of government and the members of the unicameral Legislative Assembly in 1997.
Who acts: residents · What happens: win, elect · To what, where: right, head, 1997
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 (residents), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 2 years | case |
| 2 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 won | obl |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 demands | case |
| 4 | demands | demand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 years | nmod |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 autonomy | case |
| 6 | greater | great | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 8 autonomy | amod |
| 7 | political | political | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 autonomy | amod |
| 8 | autonomy | autonomy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 demands | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 years | punct |
| 10 | residents | resident | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 won | nsubj |
| 11 | won | win | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 right | det |
| 13 | right | right | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 won | obj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 elect | mark |
| 15 | elect | elect | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 right | acl |
| 16 | both | both | CCONJ | _ | 18 head | cc:preconj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 head | det |
| 18 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 elect | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 government | case |
| 20 | government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 head | nmod |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 members | cc |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 members | det |
| 23 | members | member | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 head | conj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 Assembly | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 Assembly | det |
| 26 | unicameral | unicameral | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 Assembly | amod |
| 27 | Legislative | legislative | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 Assembly | amod |
| 28 | Assembly | Assembly | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 members | nmod |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 1997 | case |
| 30 | 1997 | 1997 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 15 elect | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 won | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | win | past | residents | the right | year | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent right=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | elect | to-infinitive | residents not said here | the head of government and the members of the unicameral Legislative Assembly | 1997 | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Theme |
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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