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title: That same year, construction commenced on a segment between Querétar… — Mexico City · tree and pragmatics
description: That same year, construction commenced on a segment between Querétaro and Irapuato, Guanajuato that is expected to be a component of the larger proposed Tren Ciudad de México–Guadalajara. Who acts: that. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Mexico City» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Mexico City, sentence 437

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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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That same year, construction commenced on a segment between Querétaro and Irapuato, Guanajuato that is expected to be a component of the larger proposed Tren Ciudad de México–Guadalajara.

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**Who acts:** that · **What happens:** commence, expect, be, propose · **To what, where:** construction, segment, that, component, Tren

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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 (that), 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:437
# text = That same year, construction commenced on a segment between Querétaro and Irapuato, Guanajuato that is expected to be a component of the larger proposed Tren Ciudad de México–Guadalajara.
1	That	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
2	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	construction	construction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
6	commenced	commence	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	segment	segment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	between	between	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Querétaro	Querétaro	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	Irapuato	Irapuato	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	Guanajuato	Guanajuato	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
16	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux:pass	_	_
18	expected	expect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
20	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	cop	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	component	component	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	xcomp	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	larger	large	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	22	amod	_	_
26	proposed	propose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	conj	_	_
27	Tren	Tren	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
28	Ciudad	Ciudad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	flat	_	_
29	de	de	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	flat	_	_
30	México	México	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	–	-	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	Guadalajara	Guadalajara	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **commence** | participle |  | construction *not said here* |  | a segment between Querétaro and Irapuato and Guanajuato |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 2 | **expect** | present · passive |  | that |  |  | year |  | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **is a** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | that *not said here* | a component |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **propose** | past | that *not said here* | Tren and Guadalajara |  |  |  |  | vn reflexive\_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tren=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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