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title: The mass kidnapping of 43 students in Iguala on 26 September 2014 tr… — Mexico · tree and pragmatics
description: The mass kidnapping of 43 students in Iguala on 26 September 2014 triggered nationwide protests against the government's weak response to the disappearances and widespread corruption that gives free rein to criminal organizations. Who acts: mass kidnapping, widespread corruption. A sentence of Wikip
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# Mexico, sentence 327

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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 mass kidnapping of 43 students in Iguala on 26 September 2014 triggered nationwide protests against the government's weak response to the disappearances and widespread corruption that gives free rein to criminal organizations.

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**Who acts:** mass kidnapping, widespread corruption · **What happens:** trigger, give, kidnap · **To what, where:** nationwide protests, free rein, criminal organizations, 43 students

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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 (mass kidnapping, widespread corruption), 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:327
# text = The mass kidnapping of 43 students in Iguala on 26 September 2014 triggered nationwide protests against the government's weak response to the disappearances and widespread corruption that gives free rein to criminal organizations.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	mass	mass	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	kidnapping	kidnapping	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	43	43	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	students	student	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Iguala	Iguala	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	26	26	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	nmod	_	_
11	September	September	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod:unmarked	_	_
12	2014	2014	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	flat	_	_
13	triggered	trigger	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	nationwide	nationwide	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	protests	protest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
16	against	against	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	's	's	PART	POS	_	18	case	_	_
20	weak	weak	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	response	response	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	disappearances	disappearance	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nmod	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	widespread	widespread	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	corruption	corruption	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	_
28	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	29	nsubj	_	_
29	gives	give	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	acl:relcl	_	_
30	free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	rein	rein	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
32	to	to	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	criminal	criminal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	organizations	organization	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **trigger** | past | the mass kidnapping of 43 students in Iguala on 26  September | nationwide protests |  |  |  | against the government's weak response to the disappearances and widespread corruption | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition protest=Patient |
| 2 | **give** | present | widespread corruption | free rein | criminal organizations |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent rein=Theme to organization=Recipient |
| 3 | **kidnap** |  |  | 43 students in Iguala |  |  |  |  | nom kidnapping «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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