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title: The vast majority of this combined population (98–99%) are in the U.… — Mexico · tree and pragmatics
description: The vast majority of this combined population (98–99%) are in the U.S. The largest Mexican communities outside Mexico are in the metropolitan areas of Los Angeles, Chicago, Houston and Dallas–Fort Worth. Who acts: vast majority, largest Mexican communities. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Mexico» with it
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# Mexico, sentence 455

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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 vast majority of this combined population (98–99%) are in the U.S. The largest Mexican communities outside Mexico are in the metropolitan areas of Los Angeles, Chicago, Houston and Dallas–Fort Worth.

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**Who acts:** vast majority, largest Mexican communities · **What happens:** combine, be · **To what, where:** U.S., metropolitan 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 (vast majority, largest Mexican communities), 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:455
# text = The vast majority of this combined population (98–99%) are in the U.S. The largest Mexican communities outside Mexico are in the metropolitan areas of Los Angeles, Chicago, Houston and Dallas–Fort Worth.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	vast	vast	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	majority	majority	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	det	_	_
6	combined	combine	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	amod	_	_
7	population	population	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
8	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	98	98	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	–	–	SYM	SYM	ExtPos=ADP	11	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	99	99	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	%	%	SYM	NN	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	9	punct	_	_
14	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	U.S.	U.S.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
18	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
19	largest	large	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	21	amod	_	_
20	Mexican	Mexican	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	communities	community	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nsubj	_	_
22	outside	outside	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	Mexico	Mexico	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
24	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	metropolitan	metropolitan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	areas	area	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	Los	Los	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
31	Angeles	Angeles	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
33	Chicago	Chicago	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
35	Houston	Houston	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	conj	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
37	Dallas	Dallas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	–	-	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	Fort	Fort	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	conj	_	_
40	Worth	Worth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	39	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **combine** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **is** | present | the vast majority of this combined population |  |  | the U.S. |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | present | the largest Mexican communities outside Mexico |  |  | the metropolitan areas |  | of Los and Chicago and Houston and Dallas and Fort | 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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