--- title: The megalopolis as defined by the Environmental Commission of the Me… — Mexico City · tree and pragmatics description: The megalopolis as defined by the Environmental Commission of the Megalopolis (CAMe) covers Mexico City and the states of Mexico, Hidalgo, Puebla, Tlaxcala, Morelos, and since 2019, Querétaro, thus encompassing the metropolitan areas of Mexico City, Puebla, Querétaro, Toluca, Cuernavaca, Pachuca, an --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Mexico_City/253/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [wikipedia](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/) / [en](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/) / [Mexico City](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Mexico_City/) / 253 # Mexico City, sentence 253 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. The megalopolis as defined by the Environmental Commission of the Megalopolis (CAMe) covers Mexico City and the states of Mexico, Hidalgo, Puebla, Tlaxcala, Morelos, and since 2019, Querétaro, thus encompassing the metropolitan areas of Mexico City, Puebla, Querétaro, Toluca, Cuernavaca, Pachuca, and others. **Who acts:** megalopolis · **What happens:** define, cover, encompass · **To what, where:** megalopolis, City states, metropolitan areas 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 (megalopolis), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:253 # text = The megalopolis as defined by the Environmental Commission of the Megalopolis (CAMe) covers Mexico City and the states of Mexico, Hidalgo, Puebla, Tlaxcala, Morelos, and since 2019, Querétaro, thus encompassing the metropolitan areas of Mexico City, Puebla, Querétaro, Toluca, Cuernavaca, Pachuca, and others. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 megalopolis megalopolis NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 3 as as SCONJ IN _ 4 mark _ _ 4 defined define VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 acl _ _ 5 by by ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 Environmental Environmental ADJ NNP Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 Commission Commission PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 9 of of ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 Megalopolis Megalopolis PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nmod _ _ 12 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 13 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 13 CAMe CAMe PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 14 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 13 punct _ _ 15 covers cover VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 16 Mexico Mexico PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 compound _ _ 17 City City PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 compound _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 states state NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obj _ _ 21 of of ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 Mexico Mexico PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 24 Hidalgo Hidalgo PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 26 Puebla Puebla PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 28 Tlaxcala Tlaxcala PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 30 Morelos Morelos PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 33 since since ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 2019 2019 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 15 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 36 Querétaro Querétaro PROPN NNP Number=Sing 34 nmod:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 38 thus thus ADV RB _ 39 advmod _ _ 39 encompassing encompass VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 34 advcl _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 41 metropolitan metropolitan NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 compound _ _ 42 areas area NOUN NNS Number=Plur 39 obj _ _ 43 of of ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 44 Mexico Mexico PROPN NNP Number=Sing 45 compound _ _ 45 City City PROPN NNP Number=Sing 42 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 46 , , PUNCT , _ 47 punct _ _ 47 Puebla Puebla PROPN NNP Number=Sing 45 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 48 , , PUNCT , _ 49 punct _ _ 49 Querétaro Querétaro PROPN NNP Number=Sing 45 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 50 , , PUNCT , _ 51 punct _ _ 51 Toluca Toluca PROPN NNP Number=Sing 45 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 52 , , PUNCT , _ 53 punct _ _ 53 Cuernavaca Cuernavaca PROPN NNP Number=Sing 51 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 54 , , PUNCT , _ 55 punct _ _ 55 Pachuca Pachuca PROPN NNP Number=Sing 51 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 56 , , PUNCT , _ 58 punct _ _ 57 and and CCONJ CC _ 58 cc _ _ 58 others other NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 59 . . PUNCT . _ 15 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **define** | participle | | the megalopolis *not said here* | | | | by the Environmental Commission of the Megalopolis | vn reflexive\_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **cover** | present | the megalopolis | the City states of Mexico and Hidalgo and Puebla and Tlaxcala and Morelos | | | | 2019 Querétaro *parataxis*; others *conj* | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme state=Destination | | 3 | **encompass** | gerund | the megalopolis *not said here* | the metropolitan areas of Mexico City and Puebla and Querétaro and Toluca and Cuernavaca and Pachuca | | | | thus *property* | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot area=Theme | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 252](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Mexico_City/252/) - next →: [sentence 254](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Mexico_City/254/) - ↑ back to [Mexico City](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Mexico_City/)