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title: The net migration rate of Mexico City from 1995 to 2000 was negative. — Mexico City · tree and pragmatics
description: The net migration rate of Mexico City from 1995 to 2000 was negative. Who acts: net migration rate. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Mexico City» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Mexico City, sentence 236

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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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The net migration rate of Mexico City from 1995 to 2000 was negative.

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**Who acts:** net migration rate · **What happens:** be

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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 (net migration rate), 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:236
# text = The net migration rate of Mexico City from 1995 to 2000 was negative.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	net	net	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	migration	migration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	rate	rate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	Mexico	Mexico	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	City	City	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	1995	1995	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	nmod	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	2000	2000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	nmod	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
13	negative	negative	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the net migration rate of Mexico City from 1995 to 2000 |  |  |  |  | negative *property* | tree rules |

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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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