Mexico City, sentence 253
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.
The megalopolis as defined by the Environmental Commission of the Megalopolis (CAMe) covers Mexico City and the states of Mexico, Hidalgo, Puebla, Tlaxcala, Morelos, and since 2019, Querétaro, thus encompassing the metropolitan areas of Mexico City, Puebla, Querétaro, Toluca, Cuernavaca, Pachuca, and others.
Who acts: megalopolis · What happens: define, cover, encompass · To what, where: megalopolis, City states, metropolitan areas
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 (megalopolis), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 megalopolis | det |
| 2 | megalopolis | megalopolis | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 covers | nsubj |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 4 defined | mark |
| 4 | defined | define | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 megalopolis | acl |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 Commission | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Commission | det |
| 7 | Environmental | Environmental | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 Commission | amod |
| 8 | Commission | Commission | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 defined | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 Megalopolis | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Megalopolis | det |
| 11 | Megalopolis | Megalopolis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Commission | nmod |
| 12 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 13 CAMe | punct |
| 13 | CAMe | CAMe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Megalopolis | appos |
| 14 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 13 CAMe | punct |
| 15 | covers | cover | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | Mexico | Mexico | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 City | compound |
| 17 | City | City | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 states | compound |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 states | cc |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 states | det |
| 20 | states | state | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 covers | obj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 Mexico | case |
| 22 | Mexico | Mexico | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 states | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 Hidalgo | punct |
| 24 | Hidalgo | Hidalgo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Mexico | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 Puebla | punct |
| 26 | Puebla | Puebla | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Mexico | conj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 Tlaxcala | punct |
| 28 | Tlaxcala | Tlaxcala | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Mexico | conj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 Morelos | punct |
| 30 | Morelos | Morelos | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Mexico | conj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 2019 | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 2019 | cc |
| 33 | since | since | ADP | _ | 34 2019 | case |
| 34 | 2019 | 2019 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 15 covers | parataxis |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 Querétaro | punct |
| 36 | Querétaro | Querétaro | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 2019 | nmod:unmarked |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 encompassing | punct |
| 38 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 39 encompassing | advmod |
| 39 | encompassing | encompass | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 34 2019 | advcl |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 areas | det |
| 41 | metropolitan | metropolitan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 areas | compound |
| 42 | areas | area | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 encompassing | obj |
| 43 | of | of | ADP | _ | 45 City | case |
| 44 | Mexico | Mexico | PROPN | Number=Sing | 45 City | compound |
| 45 | City | City | PROPN | Number=Sing | 42 areas | nmod |
| 46 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 Puebla | punct |
| 47 | Puebla | Puebla | PROPN | Number=Sing | 45 City | conj |
| 48 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 49 Querétaro | punct |
| 49 | Querétaro | Querétaro | PROPN | Number=Sing | 45 City | conj |
| 50 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 51 Toluca | punct |
| 51 | Toluca | Toluca | PROPN | Number=Sing | 45 City | conj |
| 52 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 53 Cuernavaca | punct |
| 53 | Cuernavaca | Cuernavaca | PROPN | Number=Sing | 51 Toluca | conj |
| 54 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 55 Pachuca | punct |
| 55 | Pachuca | Pachuca | PROPN | Number=Sing | 51 Toluca | conj |
| 56 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 58 others | punct |
| 57 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 58 others | cc |
| 58 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 covers | conj |
| 59 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 covers | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | define | participle | the megalopolis not said here | by the Environmental Commission of the Megalopolis | vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | cover | present | the megalopolis | the City states of Mexico and Hidalgo and Puebla and Tlaxcala and Morelos | 2019 Querétaro parataxis; others conj | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme state=Destination | |||
| 3 | encompass | gerund | the megalopolis not said here | the metropolitan areas of Mexico City and Puebla and Querétaro and Toluca and Cuernavaca and Pachuca | thus property | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot area=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.
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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