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title: Although the Constitutions of 1857 and 1917 put limits on the role o… — Mexico · tree and pragmatics
description: Although the Constitutions of 1857 and 1917 put limits on the role of the Catholic Church in Mexico, Catholicism remains Mexico's dominant religious affiliation. Who acts: Constitutions, Catholicism, Mexico. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Mexico» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Mexico, sentence 485

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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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Although the Constitutions of 1857 and 1917 put limits on the role of the Catholic Church in Mexico, Catholicism remains Mexico's dominant religious affiliation.

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**Who acts:** Constitutions, Catholicism, Mexico · **What happens:** put, remain, affiliate · **To what, where:** limits, role, dominant religious affiliation

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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 (Constitutions, Catholicism, Mexico), 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:485
# text = Although the Constitutions of 1857 and 1917 put limits on the role of the Catholic Church in Mexico, Catholicism remains Mexico's dominant religious affiliation.
1	Although	although	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Constitutions	Constitution	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	1857	1857	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	nmod	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	1917	1917	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	conj	_	_
8	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	limits	limit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	role	role	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	Catholic	Catholic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	Church	Church	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	Mexico	Mexico	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	Catholicism	Catholicism	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
21	remains	remain	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl:relcl	_	_
22	Mexico	Mexico	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	's	's	PART	POS	_	22	case	_	_
24	dominant	dominant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
25	religious	religious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	affiliation	affiliation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **put** | past | the Constitutions of 1857 | limits |  | the role of the Catholic Church in Mexico |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent limit=Theme on role=Destination |
| 2 | **remain** | present | Catholicism | Mexico's dominant religious affiliation |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme affiliation=Attribute |
| 3 | **affiliate** |  | Mexico |  |  |  |  |  | nom affiliation «state intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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