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title: Under the First Mexican Empire, Mexico reached its greatest territor… — Guatemala · tree and pragmatics
description: Under the First Mexican Empire, Mexico reached its greatest territorial extent, stretching from northern California to the provinces of Central America (excluding Panama, which was then part of Gran Colombia), which had not initially approved becoming part of the Mexican Empire but joined the Empire
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# Guatemala, sentence 56

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From Wikipedia, [«Guatemala»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guatemala), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.

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Under the First Mexican Empire, Mexico reached its greatest territorial extent, stretching from northern California to the provinces of Central America (excluding Panama, which was then part of Gran Colombia), which had not initially approved becoming part of the Mexican Empire but joined the Empire shortly after their independence.

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**Who acts:** Mexico, excluding Panama, Empire · **What happens:** reach, stretch, exclude, be, not approve, become · **To what, where:** greatest territorial extent, First Mexican Empire, northern California, part, excluding Panama, Empire

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Guatemala». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mexico, excluding Panama, Empire), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = wikipedia:Guatemala:56
# text = Under the First Mexican Empire, Mexico reached its greatest territorial extent, stretching from northern California to the provinces of Central America (excluding Panama, which was then part of Gran Colombia), which had not initially approved becoming part of the Mexican Empire but joined the Empire shortly after their independence.
1	Under	under	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	First	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	5	amod	_	_
4	Mexican	Mexican	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	Empire	Empire	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	Mexico	Mexico	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	reached	reach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
10	greatest	great	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	12	amod	_	_
11	territorial	territorial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	extent	extent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	stretching	stretch	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
15	from	from	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	northern	northern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	California	California	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	provinces	province	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	Central	Central	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	flat	_	_
23	America	America	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
24	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	excluding	exclude	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	26	amod	_	_
26	Panama	Panama	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
28	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	31	nsubj	_	_
29	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	cop	_	_
30	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	31	advmod	_	_
31	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	appos	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	Gran	Gran	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	_
34	Colombia	Colombia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
37	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	41	nsubj:pass	_	_
38	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	41	aux	_	_
39	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	41	advmod	_	_
40	initially	initially	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	_
41	approved	approve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	acl:relcl	_	_
42	becoming	become	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	41	advcl	_	_
43	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	xcomp	_	_
44	of	of	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
46	Mexican	Mexican	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	47	amod	_	_
47	Empire	Empire	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	43	nmod	_	_
48	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	49	cc	_	_
49	joined	join	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
50	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
51	Empire	Empire	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	49	obj	_	_
52	shortly	shortly	ADV	RB	_	49	advmod	_	_
53	after	after	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
54	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	55	nmod:poss	_	_
55	independence	independence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reach** | past | Mexico | Empire's greatest territorial extent |  | the First Mexican Empire |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent extent=Theme |
| 2 | **stretch** | gerund | Mexico *not said here* |  |  | northern California |  | to the provinces of Central America  excluding Panama | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from california=Location |
| 3 | **exclude** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Causer |
| 4 | **is a** | past | excluding Panama | part |  |  | then | of Gran Colombia | tree rules |
| 5 | **not** **approve** | past · perfect · passive |  | excluding Panama |  |  |  | initially *property* | vn allow-64.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Beneficiary |
| 6 | **become** | gerund |  | part of the Mexican Empire |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 7 | **join** | past | Mexico *not said here* | the Empire |  |  | after Sites's independence | shortly *property* | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent empire=Patient |
| 8 | **extend** |  | Empire |  |  |  |  |  | nom extent «state transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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**Text:** the English Wikipedia, «Guatemala», 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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