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title: In the 20th century the phenomenal growth of the city and its enviro… — Mexico City · tree and pragmatics
description: In the 20th century the phenomenal growth of the city and its environmental and political consequences dominate. Who acts: city. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Mexico City» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Mexico City, sentence 131

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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 the 20th century the phenomenal growth of the city and its environmental and political consequences dominate.

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**Who acts:** city · **What happens:** grow

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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: who acts (city), 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:131
# text = In the 20th century the phenomenal growth of the city and its environmental and political consequences dominate.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	20th	20th	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Ord	4	amod	_	_
4	century	century	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	phenomenal	phenomenal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	growth	growth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
12	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
13	environmental	environmental	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	political	political	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	conj	_	_
16	consequences	consequence	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	_
17	dominate	dominant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|Typo=Yes	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 2 | **grow** |  | the city and growth's environmental consequences |  |  |  |  |  | nom growth «process intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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