Mexico City, sentence 575
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.
In 2017, NBA commissioner Adam Silver expressed interest in placing an NBA G League expansion team in Mexico City as early as 2018.
Who acts: Adam · What happens: express, place · To what, where: interest, 2017, League expansion team, Mexico City
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 (Adam), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 2017 | case |
| 2 | 2017 | 2017 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 expressed | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 2017 | punct |
| 4 | NBA | NBA | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 commissioner | compound |
| 5 | commissioner | commissioner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Adam | nmod:desc |
| 6 | Adam | Adam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 expressed | nsubj |
| 7 | Silver | Silver | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Adam | flat |
| 8 | expressed | express | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | interest | interest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 expressed | obj |
| 10 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 11 placing | mark |
| 11 | placing | place | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 expressed | advcl |
| 12 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 team | det |
| 13 | NBA | NBA | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 G | compound |
| 14 | G | G | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 League | compound |
| 15 | League | League | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 team | compound |
| 16 | expansion | expansion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 team | compound |
| 17 | team | team | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 placing | obj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 City | case |
| 19 | Mexico | Mexico | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 City | compound |
| 20 | City | City | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 team | nmod |
| 21 | as | as | ADV | _ | 22 early | advmod |
| 22 | early | early | ADV | Degree=Pos | 11 placing | advmod |
| 23 | as | as | ADP | _ | 24 2018 | case |
| 24 | 2018 | 2018 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 22 early | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 expressed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | express | past | Adam NBA commissioner | interest | 2017 | vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent interest=Theme | |||
| 2 | place | gerund | Adam NBA commissioner not said here | a League expansion team | Mexico City | early property | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent team=Theme in city=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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