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title: Efforts to assimilate the native population into Christian European… — Mexico · tree and pragmatics
description: Efforts to assimilate the native population into Christian European culture during the colonial era were only partially successful, with many pre-Columbian customs, traditions, and norms persisting regionally (particularly in rural areas) or becoming syncretized; conversely, many Spanish settlers in
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# Mexico, sentence 522

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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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Efforts to assimilate the native population into Christian European culture during the colonial era were only partially successful, with many pre-Columbian customs, traditions, and norms persisting regionally (particularly in rural areas) or becoming syncretized; conversely, many Spanish settlers integrated into local communities through acculturation or intermarriage.

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**Who acts:** Efforts, norms · **What happens:** assimilate, be, persist, become, syncretize, integrate · **To what, where:** native population, Christian European culture, many Spanish settlers

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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 (Efforts, norms), 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:522
# text = Efforts to assimilate the native population into Christian European culture during the colonial era were only partially successful, with many pre-Columbian customs, traditions, and norms persisting regionally (particularly in rural areas) or becoming syncretized; conversely, many Spanish settlers integrated into local communities through acculturation or intermarriage.
1	Efforts	effort	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
2	to	to	PART	TO	_	3	mark	_	_
3	assimilate	assimilate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	acl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	native	native	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	population	population	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	into	into	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	Christian	Christian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	European	European	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	culture	culture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
11	during	during	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	colonial	colonial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	era	era	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
15	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
16	only	only	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
17	partially	partially	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	successful	successful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
22	pre-Columbian	pre-columbian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	customs	custom	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	traditions	tradition	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	norms	norm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	conj	_	_
29	persisting	persist	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	28	acl	_	_
30	regionally	regionally	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
31	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	35	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	particularly	particularly	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
33	in	in	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	rural	rural	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	areas	area	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	35	punct	_	_
37	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
38	becoming	become	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	conj	_	_
39	syncretized	syncretize	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	38	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
41	conversely	conversely	ADV	RB	_	45	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
43	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	amod	_	_
44	Spanish	Spanish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	amod	_	_
45	settlers	settler	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	conj	_	_
46	integrated	integrate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	45	acl	_	_
47	into	into	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
48	local	local	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	49	amod	_	_
49	communities	community	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	46	obl	_	_
50	through	through	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
51	acculturation	acculturation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	obl	_	_
52	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	53	cc	_	_
53	intermarriage	intermarriage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **assimilate** | to-infinitive | Efforts *not said here* | the native population |  | Christian European culture | during the colonial era |  | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent population=Patient |
| 2 | **is** | past | Efforts |  |  |  |  | with many pre-Columbian customs and traditions; norms *conj*; many Spanish settlers *conj*; partially, successful *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **persist** | gerund | norms *not said here* |  |  |  |  | regionally *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **become** | gerund | Efforts *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **syncretize** | participle | Efforts *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **integrate** | participle |  | many Spanish settlers *not said here* |  |  |  | through acculturation or intermarriage; into local communities | vn amalgamate-22.2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent into community=Co-Patient |

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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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