Mexico City, sentence 163
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.
Since the beginning of the 20th century the city has sunk as much as 9 m in some areas, and it continues to sink almost 50 cm every year.
Who acts: base · What happens: sink, continue, begin · To what, where: city, 50 cm, 20th century
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 (base), 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 | Since | since | ADP | _ | 3 beginning | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 beginning | det |
| 3 | beginning | beginning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sunk | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 century | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 century | det |
| 6 | 20th | 20th | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Combi NumType=Ord | 7 century | amod |
| 7 | century | century | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 beginning | nmod |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 city | det |
| 9 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sunk | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 sunk | aux |
| 11 | sunk | sink | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 12 | as | as | ADV | _ | 13 much | advmod |
| 13 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 sunk | obj |
| 14 | as | as | ADP | _ | 16 m | case |
| 15 | 9 | 9 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 16 m | nummod |
| 16 | m | m | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 much | obl |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 areas | case |
| 18 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 19 areas | det |
| 19 | areas | area | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 m | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 continues | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 continues | cc |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 continues | nsubj |
| 23 | continues | continue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 sunk | conj |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 sink | mark |
| 25 | sink | sink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 continues | xcomp |
| 26 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 27 50 | advmod |
| 27 | 50 | 50 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 28 cm | nummod |
| 28 | cm | cm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 sink | obj |
| 29 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 30 year | det |
| 30 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 sink | obl:unmarked |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 sunk | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sink | present · perfect · passive | the city | since the beginning of the 20th century | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | continue | present | base | vn continue-55.3 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | sink | to-infinitive | base not said here | 50 cm | year | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent cm=Patient | |||
| 4 | begin | the 20th century | nom beginning «event transitive»: of=patient |
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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