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title: It was in the second half of the 20th century that the artistic move… — Mexico City · tree and pragmatics
description: It was in the second half of the 20th century that the artistic movement began to drift apart from the Revolutionary theme. Who acts: building, artistic movement. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Mexico City» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Mexico City, sentence 474

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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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It was in the second half of the 20th century that the artistic movement began to drift apart from the Revolutionary theme.

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**Who acts:** building, artistic movement · **What happens:** be, begin, drift apart · **To what, where:** second half, Revolutionary theme

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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 (building, artistic movement), 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:474
# text = It was in the second half of the 20th century that the artistic movement began to drift apart from the Revolutionary theme.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	6	amod	_	_
6	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	0	root	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	20th	20th	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Ord	10	amod	_	_
10	century	century	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
11	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	artistic	artistic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	movement	movement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	drift	drift	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	xcomp	_	_
18	apart	apart	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
19	from	from	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	Revolutionary	revolutionary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	theme	theme	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | building |  |  | the second half | century |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **begin** | past | the artistic movement |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **drift apart** | to-infinitive | the artistic movement *not said here* |  |  | the Revolutionary theme |  | apart *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from theme=Trajectory |

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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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