Mexico City, sentence 474

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.

It was in the second half of the 20th century that the artistic movement began to drift apart from the Revolutionary theme.

Who acts: building, artistic movement · What happens: be, begin, drift apart · To what, where: second half, Revolutionary theme

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 (building, artistic movement), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 half	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 half	cop
3	in	in	ADP	_	6 half	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 half	det
5	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	6 half	amod
6	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	10 century	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 century	det
9	20th	20th	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Combi NumType=Ord	10 century	amod
10	century	century	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 half	nmod
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 began	mark
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 movement	det
13	artistic	artistic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 movement	amod
14	movement	movement	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 began	nsubj
15	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 half	advcl
16	to	to	PART	_	17 drift	mark
17	drift	drift	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 began	xcomp
18	apart	apart	ADV	_	17 drift	advmod
19	from	from	ADP	_	22 theme	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 theme	det
21	Revolutionary	revolutionary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 theme	amod
22	theme	theme	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 drift	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 half	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	building	the second half	century		tree rules
2	begin	past	the artistic movement				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	drift apart	to-infinitive	the artistic movement not said here	the Revolutionary theme		apart property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from theme=Trajectory

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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Mexico City, sentence 474