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title: After years of demands for greater political autonomy, residents won… — Mexico City · tree and pragmatics
description: After years of demands for greater political autonomy, residents won the right to elect both the head of government and the members of the unicameral Legislative Assembly in 1997. Who acts: residents. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Mexico City» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Mexico City, sentence 16

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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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After years of demands for greater political autonomy, residents won the right to elect both the head of government and the members of the unicameral Legislative Assembly in 1997.

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**Who acts:** residents · **What happens:** win, elect · **To what, where:** right, head, 1997

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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 (residents), 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:16
# text = After years of demands for greater political autonomy, residents won the right to elect both the head of government and the members of the unicameral Legislative Assembly in 1997.
1	After	after	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	demands	demand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	greater	great	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	8	amod	_	_
7	political	political	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	autonomy	autonomy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
10	residents	resident	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
11	won	win	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	right	right	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	elect	elect	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	acl	_	_
16	both	both	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc:preconj	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	members	member	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	conj	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
26	unicameral	unicameral	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
27	Legislative	legislative	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	Assembly	Assembly	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	1997	1997	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **win** | past | residents | the right |  |  | year |  | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent right=Eventuality |
| 2 | **elect** | to-infinitive | residents *not said here* | the head of government and the members of the unicameral Legislative Assembly |  | 1997 |  |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Theme |

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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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