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title: More than 100 journalists and media workers have been killed or disa… — Mexico · tree and pragmatics
description: More than 100 journalists and media workers have been killed or disappeared since 2000, and most of these crimes remained unsolved, improperly investigated, and with few perpetrators arrested and convicted. Who acts: most. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Mexico» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Mexico, sentence 328

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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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More than 100 journalists and media workers have been killed or disappeared since 2000, and most of these crimes remained unsolved, improperly investigated, and with few perpetrators arrested and convicted.

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**Who acts:** most · **What happens:** kill, disappear, remain, investigate, arrest, convict · **To what, where:** 100 journalists, few perpetrators

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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 (most), 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:328
# text = More than 100 journalists and media workers have been killed or disappeared since 2000, and most of these crimes remained unsolved, improperly investigated, and with few perpetrators arrested and convicted.
1	More	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV	3	advmod	_	_
2	than	than	ADP	IN	_	1	fixed	_	_
3	100	100	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	journalists	journalist	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	media	media	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	workers	worker	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
8	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	killed	kill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
11	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	disappeared	disappear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	conj	_	_
13	since	since	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	2000	2000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
17	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	21	nsubj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	20	det	_	_
20	crimes	crime	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	_
21	remained	remain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
22	unsolved	unsolved	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	improperly	improperly	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	investigated	investigate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
28	with	with	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	perpetrators	perpetrator	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
31	arrested	arrest	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	30	acl	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	convicted	convict	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	31	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **kill** | present · perfect · passive |  | 100 journalists and media workers |  |  |  | with few perpetrators | vn murder-42.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with perpetrator=Instrument |
| 2 | **disappear** | participle |  |  |  |  | since 2000 |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **remain** | past | most of this crimes |  |  |  |  | unsolved *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **investigate** | participle | most of this crimes *not said here* |  |  |  |  | improperly *property* | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **arrest** | participle |  | few perpetrators *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **convict** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | 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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