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title: Despite its difficult topography, Mexico's roadway is extensive and… — Mexico · tree and pragmatics
description: Despite its difficult topography, Mexico's roadway is extensive and most areas are covered. Who acts: roadway. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Mexico» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Mexico, sentence 409

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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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Despite its difficult topography, Mexico's roadway is extensive and most areas are covered.

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**Who acts:** roadway · **What happens:** be, cover · **To what, where:** most areas

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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 (roadway), 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:409
# text = Despite its difficult topography, Mexico's roadway is extensive and most areas are covered.
1	Despite	despite	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
3	difficult	difficult	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	topography	topography	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	Mexico	Mexico	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	roadway	roadway	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
10	extensive	extensive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
12	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	13	amod	_	_
13	areas	area	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
14	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux:pass	_	_
15	covered	cover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Mexico's roadway |  |  |  |  | despite medication's difficult topography; extensive *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **cover** | present · passive |  | most areas |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Destination |

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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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