Mexico City, sentence 456
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 piece, in bronze, was the work of Manuel Tolsá and it has been placed at the Plaza Tolsá, in front of the Palacio de Mineria (Mining Palace).
Who acts: piece · What happens: be, place · To what, where: work, piece, Plaza
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 (piece), 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 | 2 piece | det |
| 2 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 work | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 bronze | punct |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 bronze | case |
| 5 | bronze | bronze | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 piece | appos |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 piece | punct |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 work | cop |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 work | det |
| 9 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 Manuel | case |
| 11 | Manuel | Manuel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 work | nmod |
| 12 | Tolsá | Tolsá | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Manuel | flat |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 placed | cc |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 placed | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 placed | aux |
| 16 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 17 placed | aux:pass |
| 17 | placed | place | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 work | conj |
| 18 | at | at | ADP | _ | 20 Plaza | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Plaza | det |
| 20 | Plaza | Plaza | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 placed | obl |
| 21 | Tolsá | Tolsá | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Plaza | flat |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 front | punct |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 front | case |
| 24 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 Plaza | appos |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 Mineria | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 Mineria | det |
| 27 | Palacio | Palacio | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 Mineria | compound |
| 28 | de | de | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 Palacio | flat |
| 29 | Mineria | Mineria | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 front | nmod |
| 30 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 32 Palace | punct |
| 31 | Mining | Mining | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 Palace | compound |
| 32 | Palace | Palace | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 Mineria | appos |
| 33 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 32 Palace | punct |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 work | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | this piece | the work | of Manuel | tree rules | |||
| 2 | place | present · perfect · passive | piece | the Plaza | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme at plaza=Destination |
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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