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title: Similarly, some cooking techniques used today are inherited from pre… — Mexico · tree and pragmatics
description: Similarly, some cooking techniques used today are inherited from pre-Columbian peoples, such as the nixtamalization of corn, the cooking of food in ovens at ground level, grinding in molcajete and metate. Who acts: food. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Mexico» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Mexico, sentence 611

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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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Similarly, some cooking techniques used today are inherited from pre-Columbian peoples, such as the nixtamalization of corn, the cooking of food in ovens at ground level, grinding in molcajete and metate.

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**Who acts:** food · **What happens:** use, inherit, grind, cook · **To what, where:** cooking techniques, molcajete, ovens

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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 (food), 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:611
# text = Similarly, some cooking techniques used today are inherited from pre-Columbian peoples, such as the nixtamalization of corn, the cooking of food in ovens at ground level, grinding in molcajete and metate.
1	Similarly	similarly	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	5	det	_	_
4	cooking	cooking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	techniques	technique	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
7	today	today	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl:unmarked	_	_
8	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	inherited	inherit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
10	from	from	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	pre-Columbian	pre-columbian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	peoples	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	17	case	_	_
15	as	as	ADP	IN	_	14	fixed	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	nixtamalization	nixtamalization	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	corn	corn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	cooking	cooking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	ovens	oven	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nmod	_	_
27	at	at	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	level	level	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
31	grinding	grind	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
32	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	molcajete	molcajete	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	metate	metate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **use** | participle |  | some cooking techniques *not said here* |  |  | today |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **inherit** | present · passive |  | some cooking techniques |  |  |  | from pre-Columbian peoples such the nixtamalization of corn and the cooking of food in ovens at ground level; similarly *property* | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme from people=Source |
| 3 | **grind** | gerund |  |  |  | molcajete and metate |  |  | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **cook** |  | food |  |  | ovens at ground level |  |  | nom cooking «act intransitive»: of=agent in=place |

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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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