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title: These reforms granted the city greater autonomy and changed aspects… — Mexico City · tree and pragmatics
description: These reforms granted the city greater autonomy and changed aspects of its government and political structure, though a constitutional clause still prevents it from becoming a state while it remains Mexico's capital. Who acts: reforms, constitutional clause, clause. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Mexico
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# Mexico City, sentence 20

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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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These reforms granted the city greater autonomy and changed aspects of its government and political structure, though a constitutional clause still prevents it from becoming a state while it remains Mexico's capital.

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**Who acts:** reforms, constitutional clause, clause · **What happens:** grant, change, prevent, become, remain · **To what, where:** city, aspects, structure, state, capital

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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 (reforms, constitutional clause, 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:20
# text = These reforms granted the city greater autonomy and changed aspects of its government and political structure, though a constitutional clause still prevents it from becoming a state while it remains Mexico's capital.
1	These	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	reforms	reform	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	granted	grant	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	greater	great	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	7	amod	_	_
7	autonomy	autonomy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	changed	change	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
10	aspects	aspect	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	political	political	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	structure	structure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
18	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	constitutional	constitutional	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	clause	clause	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
22	still	still	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	prevents	prevent	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
24	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	_
25	from	from	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
26	becoming	become	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	23	advcl	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	state	state	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	xcomp	_	_
29	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
30	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
31	remains	remain	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	advcl	_	_
32	Mexico	Mexico	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	's	's	PART	POS	_	32	case	_	_
34	capital	capital	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grant** | past | this reforms | the city and greater autonomy |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent city=Theme |
| 2 | **change** | past | this reforms *not said here* | aspects of autonomy's government and political structure |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent aspect=Patient |
| 3 | **prevent** | present | a constitutional clause | structure |  |  | still |  | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer it=Theme |
| 4 | **become** | gerund | a constitutional clause *not said here* | a state |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **remain** | present | clause | Mexico's capital |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme capital=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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