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title: There are historical chronicles of the conquest of the Aztec Empire… — Mexico · tree and pragmatics
description: There are historical chronicles of the conquest of the Aztec Empire by participants, and, later, by historians. Who acts: historical chronicles. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Mexico» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Mexico, sentence 572

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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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There are historical chronicles of the conquest of the Aztec Empire by participants, and, later, by historians.

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**Who acts:** historical chronicles · **What happens:** be, chronicle · **To what, where:** conquest

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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 (historical chronicles), 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:572
# text = There are historical chronicles of the conquest of the Aztec Empire by participants, and, later, by historians.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	are	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	historical	historical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	chronicles	chronicle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	conquest	conquest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	Aztec	Aztec	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	Empire	Empire	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
12	by	by	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	participants	participant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
17	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	by	by	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	historians	historian	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **does** | present | historical chronicles of the conquest of the Aztec Empire |  |  | there |  | by participants; historians *nsubj*; late *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by participant=Location |
| 2 | **chronicle** |  |  | the conquest of the Aztec Empire |  |  |  |  | nom chronicle «communication 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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