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title: Carranza became president, and the US recognized his government whil… — Mexico · tree and pragmatics
description: Carranza became president, and the US recognized his government while Zapata's forces in the south reverted to guerrilla war. Who acts: Carranza, US. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Mexico» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Mexico, sentence 151

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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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Carranza became president, and the US recognized his government while Zapata's forces in the south reverted to guerrilla war.

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**Who acts:** Carranza, US · **What happens:** become, recognize, revert · **To what, where:** president, government, forces

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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 (Carranza, US), 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:151
# text = Carranza became president, and the US recognized his government while Zapata's forces in the south reverted to guerrilla war.
1	Carranza	Carranza	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	president	president	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	US	US	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	recognized	recognize	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
12	Zapata	Zapata	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	's	's	PART	POS	_	12	case	_	_
14	forces	force	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	south	south	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
18	reverted	revert	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	advcl	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	guerrilla	guerrilla	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **become** | past | Carranza | president |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **recognize** | past | the US | Carranza's government |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer government=Stimulus |
| 3 | **revert** | participle · passive |  | Zapata's forces in the south |  |  |  | to guerrilla war | tree rules |

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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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