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title: However, in recent years some political parties have proposed an ame… — Mexico · tree and pragmatics
description: However, in recent years some political parties have proposed an amendment of the Constitution to allow the Mexican Army, Air Force or Navy to collaborate with the United Nations in peacekeeping missions, or to provide military help to countries that officially ask for it. A sentence of Wikipedia's 
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# Mexico, sentence 311

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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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However, in recent years some political parties have proposed an amendment of the Constitution to allow the Mexican Army, Air Force or Navy to collaborate with the United Nations in peacekeeping missions, or to provide military help to countries that officially ask for it.

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**What happens:** propose, allow, collaborate, provide, ask, amend · **To what, where:** political parties, Mexican Army, military help, countries, Constitution

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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: 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:311
# text = However, in recent years some political parties have proposed an amendment of the Constitution to allow the Mexican Army, Air Force or Navy to collaborate with the United Nations in peacekeeping missions, or to provide military help to countries that officially ask for it.
1	However	however	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	recent	recent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
6	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	8	det	_	_
7	political	political	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	parties	party	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
9	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	proposed	propose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
11	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	amendment	amendment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	Constitution	constitution	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	allow	allow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	advcl	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	Mexican	Mexican	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	Army	Army	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	Air	Air	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	Force	Force	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	appos	_	_
24	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	Navy	Navy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	collaborate	collaborate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	xcomp	_	_
28	with	with	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	United	United	PROPN	NNP	_	31	compound	_	_
31	Nations	Nation	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	27	obl	_	_
32	in	in	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	peacekeeping	peacekeeping	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	_
34	missions	mission	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
36	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
37	to	to	PART	TO	_	38	mark	_	_
38	provide	provide	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
39	military	military	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	help	help	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obj	_	_
41	to	to	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	countries	country	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	obl	_	_
43	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	45	obj	_	_
44	officially	officially	ADV	RB	_	45	advmod	_	_
45	ask	ask	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	42	acl:relcl	_	_
46	for	for	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
47	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	45	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **propose** | present · perfect · passive |  | some political parties |  |  | year | a amendment of the Constitution *obj*; however *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **allow** | to-infinitive |  |  | the Mexican Army |  |  |  | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer army=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **collaborate** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | with the United Nations; in peacekeeping missions | vn cooperate-73.1-1 «NP V PP.co-agent PP.theme»: agent=Agent with nation=Co-Agent in mission=Theme |
| 4 | **provide** | to-infinitive |  | military help | countries |  |  |  | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent help=Theme to country=Recipient |
| 5 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present |  | countries |  |  |  | for party; officially *property* | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent that=Recipient |
| 6 | **amend** |  |  | the Constitution |  |  |  |  | nom amendment «act transitive»: of=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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