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title: The United Mexican States is a federation of 31 free and sovereign s… — Mexico · tree and pragmatics
description: The United Mexican States is a federation of 31 free and sovereign states, which form a union that exercises a degree of jurisdiction over Mexico City. Who acts: United Mexican States, 31 free sovereign states, union. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Mexico» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Mexico, sentence 285

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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 United Mexican States is a federation of 31 free and sovereign states, which form a union that exercises a degree of jurisdiction over Mexico City.

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**Who acts:** United Mexican States, 31 free sovereign states, union · **What happens:** be, form, exercise · **To what, where:** federation, union, degree

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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 (United Mexican States, 31 free sovereign states, union), 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:285
# text = The United Mexican States is a federation of 31 free and sovereign states, which form a union that exercises a degree of jurisdiction over Mexico City.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	United	United	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	Mexican	Mexican	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	States	State	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	federation	federation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
9	31	31	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
10	free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	sovereign	sovereign	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	states	state	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
16	form	form	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	parataxis	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	union	union	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
20	exercises	exercise	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	acl:relcl	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	degree	degree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	jurisdiction	jurisdiction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
25	over	over	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	Mexico	Mexico	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	City	City	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the United Mexican States | a federation |  |  |  | of 31 free sovereign states | tree rules |
| 2 | **form** | present | 31 free sovereign states | a union |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location union=Theme |
| 3 | **exercise** | present | a union | a degree of jurisdiction over Mexico City |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent degree=Patient |

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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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