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title: Tequila, the distilled alcoholic drink made from cultivated agave ca… — Mexico · tree and pragmatics
description: Tequila, the distilled alcoholic drink made from cultivated agave cacti is a major industry. Who acts: Tequila. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Mexico» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Mexico, sentence 259

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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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Tequila, the distilled alcoholic drink made from cultivated agave cacti is a major industry.

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**Who acts:** Tequila · **What happens:** distil, make, cultivate, be · **To what, where:** distilled alcoholic drink, cultivated agave cacti, major industry

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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 (Tequila), 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:259
# text = Tequila, the distilled alcoholic drink made from cultivated agave cacti is a major industry.
1	Tequila	Tequila	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	distilled	distil	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	amod	_	_
5	alcoholic	alcoholic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	drink	drink	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
7	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
8	from	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	cultivated	cultivate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	amod	_	_
10	agave	agave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	cacti	cactus	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	major	major	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	industry	industry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **distil** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **make** | participle |  | the distilled alcoholic drink *not said here* |  | cultivated agave cacti |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: agent=Asset from cactus=Material |
| 3 | **cultivate** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is a** | present | Tequila | a major industry |  |  |  |  | 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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