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title: In 1524, the municipality of Mexico City was established as México T… — Mexico City · tree and pragmatics
description: In 1524, the municipality of Mexico City was established as México Tenochtitlán, and from 1585 onward it was officially known as Ciudad de México. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Mexico City» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Mexico City, sentence 13

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From Wikipedia, [«Mexico City»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexico_City), 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 1524, the municipality of Mexico City was established as México Tenochtitlán, and from 1585 onward it was officially known as Ciudad de México.

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**What happens:** establish, know · **To what, where:** municipality, 1524, 1585

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Mexico City». 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_City:13
# text = In 1524, the municipality of Mexico City was established as México Tenochtitlán, and from 1585 onward it was officially known as Ciudad de México.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	1524	1524	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	municipality	municipality	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	Mexico	Mexico	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	City	City	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	established	establish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
11	as	as	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	México	México	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
13	Tenochtitlán	Tenochtitlán	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
16	from	from	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	1585	1585	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	22	obl	_	_
18	onward	onward	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj:pass	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux:pass	_	_
21	officially	officially	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	conj	_	_
23	as	as	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	Ciudad	Ciudad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
25	de	de	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	flat	_	_
26	México	México	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **establish** | past · passive |  | the municipality of Mexico City |  | 1524 |  | as México | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **know** | past · passive |  | municipality |  | 1585 |  | as Ciudad; officially *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus as ciudad=Attribute |

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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 City», 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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