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title: Mexico was one of the first Latin American countries to promote rail… — Mexico · tree and pragmatics
description: Mexico was one of the first Latin American countries to promote railway development, and the network covers 30,952 km. Who acts: Mexico, network. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Mexico» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Mexico, sentence 412

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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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Mexico was one of the first Latin American countries to promote railway development, and the network covers 30,952 km.

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**Who acts:** Mexico, network · **What happens:** be, promote, cover · **To what, where:** one, railway development, 30,952 km

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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 (Mexico, network), 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:412
# text = Mexico was one of the first Latin American countries to promote railway development, and the network covers 30,952 km.
1	Mexico	Mexico	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
6	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	9	amod	_	_
7	Latin	Latin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
8	American	American	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	countries	country	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	promote	promote	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	acl	_	_
12	railway	railway	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	development	development	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	network	network	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	covers	cover	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
19	30,952	30,952	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	20	nummod	_	_
20	km	km	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | Mexico | one |  |  |  | of the first Latin American countries | tree rules |
| 2 | **promote** | to-infinitive | Mexico *not said here* | railway development |  |  |  |  | vn promote-102 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent development=Theme |
| 3 | **cover** | present | the network | 30,952 km |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme km=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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