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title: They were commissioned by the Mexican government to paint large-scal… — Mexico · tree and pragmatics
description: They were commissioned by the Mexican government to paint large-scale historical murals on the walls of public buildings, which helped shape popular perceptions of the Mexican Revolution and Mexican cultural identity. Who acts: Mexican government, public buildings. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Mexico»
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# Mexico, sentence 541

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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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They were commissioned by the Mexican government to paint large-scale historical murals on the walls of public buildings, which helped shape popular perceptions of the Mexican Revolution and Mexican cultural identity.

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**Who acts:** Mexican government, public buildings · **What happens:** commission, paint, help, shape, perceive · **To what, where:** painters, large scale, walls, popular perceptions, Mexican Revolution

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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 (Mexican government, public buildings), 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:541
# text = They were commissioned by the Mexican government to paint large-scale historical murals on the walls of public buildings, which helped shape popular perceptions of the Mexican Revolution and Mexican cultural identity.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	commissioned	commission	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	by	by	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	Mexican	Mexican	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl:agent	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	paint	paint	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
10	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	scale	scale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
13	historical	historical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	murals	mural	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	walls	wall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	public	public	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	buildings	building	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	23	nsubj	_	_
23	helped	help	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	acl:relcl	_	_
24	shape	shape	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	xcomp	_	_
25	popular	popular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	perceptions	perception	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obj	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	Mexican	Mexican	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	Revolution	Revolution	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
32	Mexican	Mexican	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
33	cultural	cultural	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	identity	identity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **commission** | past · passive | the Mexican government | painters *= painter* |  |  |  |  | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
| 2 | **paint** | to-infinitive | the Mexican government *not said here* | large scale |  | the walls of public buildings |  | historical murals *obj* | vn coloring-24 «NP V NP ADJP»: agent=Agent scale=Patient mural=Result |
| 3 | **help** | past | public buildings |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 4 | **shape** | infinitive | public buildings *not said here* | popular perceptions of the Mexican Revolution and Mexican cultural identity |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset perception=Product |
| 5 | **perceive** |  |  | the Mexican Revolution and Mexican cultural identity |  |  |  |  | nom perception «cognition transitive»: of=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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