Mexico City, sentence 41
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 latter arrived around the 14th century to settle first on the shores of the lake.
Who acts: latter · What happens: arrive, settle
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 (latter), 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 latter | det |
| 2 | latter | latter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 arrived | nsubj |
| 3 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | around | around | ADP | _ | 7 century | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 century | det |
| 6 | 14th | 14th | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Combi NumType=Ord | 7 century | amod |
| 7 | century | century | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 arrived | obl |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 settle | mark |
| 9 | settle | settle | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 arrived | advcl |
| 10 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 9 settle | advmod |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 shores | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 shores | det |
| 13 | shores | shore | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 settle | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 lake | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 lake | det |
| 16 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 shores | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 arrived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arrive | past | the latter | century | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | settle | to-infinitive | the latter not said here | on the shores of the lake; first property | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V PP.theme S»: agent=Agent on shore=Topic |
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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