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title: Mexico City is the capital and largest city in Mexico, which ranks a… — Mexico · tree and pragmatics
description: Mexico City is the capital and largest city in Mexico, which ranks among the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. Who acts: Mexico City, capital. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Mexico» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Mexico, sentence 5

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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 City is the capital and largest city in Mexico, which ranks among the most populous metropolitan areas in the world.

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**Who acts:** Mexico City, capital · **What happens:** be, rank · **To what, where:** capital

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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 City, capital), 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:5
# text = Mexico City is the capital and largest city in Mexico, which ranks among the most populous metropolitan areas in the world.
1	Mexico	Mexico	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	City	City	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	capital	capital	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	largest	large	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	8	amod	_	_
8	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Mexico	Mexico	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
13	ranks	rank	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
14	among	among	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
16	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	17	advmod	_	_
17	populous	populous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
18	metropolitan	metropolitan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	areas	area	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Mexico City | the capital and largest city in Mexico |  |  |  | largest city in Mexico *conj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **rank** | present | the capital and largest city in Mexico |  |  |  |  | among the populous metropolitan areas in the world | vn masquerade-29.6 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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