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description: In the first few decades of Spanish presence in the continent, the high level of Christian missionary activity, especially by mendicant orders like the Dominicans or Franciscans, meant the construction of many monasteries, often with Romanesque, Gothic or Mudéjar elements. A sentence of Wikipedia's 
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# Mexico, sentence 552

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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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In the first few decades of Spanish presence in the continent, the high level of Christian missionary activity, especially by mendicant orders like the Dominicans or Franciscans, meant the construction of many monasteries, often with Romanesque, Gothic or Mudéjar elements.

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**What happens:** mean, construct · **To what, where:** construction, many monasteries

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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: 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:552
# text = In the first few decades of Spanish presence in the continent, the high level of Christian missionary activity, especially by mendicant orders like the Dominicans or Franciscans, meant the construction of many monasteries, often with Romanesque, Gothic or Mudéjar elements.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	5	amod	_	_
4	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	decades	decade	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obl	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	Spanish	Spanish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	presence	presence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	continent	continent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	level	level	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	Christian	Christian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
18	missionary	missionary	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	activity	activity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	especially	especially	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
22	by	by	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	mendicant	mendicant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	orders	order	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nmod	_	_
25	like	like	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	Dominicans	Dominican	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	24	nmod	_	_
28	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	Franciscans	Franciscan	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	27	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
31	meant	mean	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	construction	construction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	monasteries	monastery	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
38	often	often	ADV	RB	_	40	advmod	_	_
39	with	with	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	Romanesque	Romanesque	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	45	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
42	Gothic	gothic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	amod	_	_
43	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
44	Mudéjar	mudéjar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	conj	_	_
45	elements	element	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	31	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | past |  | the construction of many monasteries |  |  | decade | Romanesque Gothic elements *obj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **construct** |  |  | many monasteries |  |  |  |  | nom construction «act 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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