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title: The Mexican Army, which originated in the colonial royalist forces a… — Mexico · tree and pragmatics
description: The Mexican Army, which originated in the colonial royalist forces and transitioned into the early Republic military, was effectively destroyed following its defeat by Liberal forces in the Reform War and subsequently by the French intervention, enabling the emergence of a new generation of military
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# Mexico, sentence 123

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From Wikipedia, [«Mexico»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexico), 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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The Mexican Army, which originated in the colonial royalist forces and transitioned into the early Republic military, was effectively destroyed following its defeat by Liberal forces in the Reform War and subsequently by the French intervention, enabling the emergence of a new generation of military leaders during the restoration of the Republic.

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**Who acts:** Mexican Army, army, new generation · **What happens:** originate, transition, destroy, follow, enable, defeat · **To what, where:** colonial royalist forces, early Republic military, Mexican Army, defeat, emergence

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Mexico». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mexican Army, army, new generation), 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:Mexico:123
# text = The Mexican Army, which originated in the colonial royalist forces and transitioned into the early Republic military, was effectively destroyed following its defeat by Liberal forces in the Reform War and subsequently by the French intervention, enabling the emergence of a new generation of military leaders during the restoration of the Republic.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Mexican	Mexican	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Army	Army	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
6	originated	originate	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	colonial	colonial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	royalist	royalist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	forces	force	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	transitioned	transition	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	conj	_	_
14	into	into	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
16	early	early	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
17	Republic	Republic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	military	military	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux:pass	_	_
21	effectively	effectively	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	destroyed	destroy	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
23	following	follow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	22	xcomp	_	_
24	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	defeat	defeat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	by	by	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	Liberal	liberal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	forces	force	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	Reform	Reform	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
32	War	War	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
34	subsequently	subsequently	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
35	by	by	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
37	French	French	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	intervention	intervention	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
40	enabling	enable	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	23	conj	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	emergence	emergence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obj	_	_
43	of	of	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
44	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
45	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	46	amod	_	_
46	generation	generation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	nmod	_	_
47	of	of	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
48	military	military	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	49	amod	_	_
49	leaders	leader	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	46	nmod	_	_
50	during	during	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
51	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
52	restoration	restoration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obl	_	_
53	of	of	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
54	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	55	det	_	_
55	Republic	Republic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	52	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **originate** | past | the Mexican Army |  |  | the colonial royalist forces |  |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **transition** | participle | the Mexican Army *not said here* |  |  | the early Republic military |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **destroy** | past · passive |  | the Mexican Army |  |  |  | effectively *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **follow** | gerund |  | army's defeat |  |  |  | by Liberal forces in the Reform War and the French intervention | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent defeat=Theme by force=Trajectory |
| 5 | **enable** | gerund |  | the emergence of a new generation of military leaders |  |  | during the restoration of the Republic |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **defeat** |  | army |  |  |  |  |  | nom defeat «event transitive»: poss=agent |
| 7 | **emerge** |  | a new generation of military leaders |  |  |  |  |  | nom emergence «event intransitive»: of=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, «Mexico», 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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