Mexico City, sentence 5
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.
According to the 2020 census, Mexico City proper had a population of 9,209,944 and a land area of 1495 km2, making it Mexico's primate city and the second-largest Spanish-speaking city proper in the world after Lima.
Who acts: Mexico · What happens: accord, have, make, speak · To what, where: population, area, world · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Mexico), 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 | According | accord | VERB | ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 census | case |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 1 According | fixed |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 census | det |
| 4 | 2020 | 2020 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 census | nummod |
| 5 | census | census | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 had | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 census | punct |
| 7 | Mexico | Mexico | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 had | nsubj |
| 8 | City | City | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Mexico | flat |
| 9 | proper | properly | ADV | _ | 10 had | advmod |
| 10 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 population | det |
| 12 | population | population | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 had | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 9,209,944 | case |
| 14 | 9,209,944 | 9,209,944 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 12 population | nmod |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 area | cc |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 area | det |
| 17 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 area | compound |
| 18 | area | area | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 population | conj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 1495 | case |
| 20 | 1495 | 1495 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 18 area | nmod |
| 21 | km2 | km2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 20 1495 | flat |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 making | punct |
| 23 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 had | advcl |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 making | obj |
| 25 | Mexico | Mexico | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 city | nmod:poss |
| 26 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 25 Mexico | case |
| 27 | primate | primate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 city | compound |
| 28 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 making | obj |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 city | cc |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 city | det |
| 31 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 33 largest | amod |
| 32 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 33 largest | punct |
| 33 | largest | large | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 37 city | amod |
| 34 | Spanish | Spanish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 city | amod |
| 35 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 34 Spanish | punct |
| 36 | speaking | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 37 city | amod |
| 37 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 city | conj |
| 38 | proper | properly | ADV | _ | 41 world | advmod |
| 39 | in | in | ADP | _ | 41 world | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 world | det |
| 41 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 making | obl |
| 42 | after | after | ADP | _ | 43 Lima | case |
| 43 | Lima | Lima | PROPN | Number=Sing | 41 world | nmod |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | accord | gerund | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | have | past | Mexico | a population of 9,209,944 and a land area of 1495 | accord the 2020 census; properly property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent population=Patient | |||
| 3 | make | gerund | Mexico not said here | area | the world after Lima | Mexico's primate city and the largest Spanish speaking city obj | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset it=Beneficiary city=Product | ||
| 4 | speak speech: other | gerund | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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