Mexico City, sentence 162
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.
This soft base is collapsing due to the over-extraction of groundwater, called groundwater-related subsidence.
Who acts: soft base, groundwater · What happens: collapse, call · To what, where: related subsidence · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (soft base, groundwater), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 base | det |
| 2 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 base | amod |
| 3 | base | base | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 collapsing | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 collapsing | aux |
| 5 | collapsing | collapse | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | due | due | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 9 over-extraction | case |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 due | fixed |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 over-extraction | det |
| 9 | over-extraction | over-extraction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 collapsing | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 groundwater | case |
| 11 | groundwater | groundwater | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 over-extraction | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 called | punct |
| 13 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 groundwater | acl |
| 14 | groundwater | groundwater | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 related | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 groundwater | punct |
| 16 | related | related | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 subsidence | amod |
| 17 | subsidence | subsidence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 called | xcomp |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 collapsing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | collapse | present · progressive | this soft base | due the over-extraction of groundwater | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | call | participle | groundwater not said here | related subsidence | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: 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.
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