Mexico City, sentence 520
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.
Once considered plebeian fare, by the 19th century tacos was a standard of Mexico City's cuisine.
Who acts: considered plebeian fare · What happens: consider, be · To what, where: standard
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 (considered plebeian fare), 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 | Once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 2 considered | advmod |
| 2 | considered | consider | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 fare | amod |
| 3 | plebeian | plebeian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 fare | amod |
| 4 | fare | fare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 standard | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 tacos | punct |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 tacos | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 tacos | det |
| 8 | 19th | 19th | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Combi NumType=Ord | 10 tacos | amod |
| 9 | century | century | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 tacos | compound |
| 10 | tacos | taco | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 fare | conj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 standard | cop |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 standard | det |
| 13 | standard | standard | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 cuisine | case |
| 15 | Mexico | Mexico | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 City | compound |
| 16 | City | City | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 cuisine | nmod:poss |
| 17 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 16 City | case |
| 18 | cuisine | cuisine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 standard | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 standard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | consider | participle | once property | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a | past | considered plebeian fare and the 19th century tacos | a standard | of Mexico City's cuisine | tree rules |
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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