--- title: According to the 2020 census, Mexico City proper had a population of… — Mexico City · tree and pragmatics description: According to the 2020 census, Mexico City proper had a population of 9,209,944 and a land area of 1495 km2, making it Mexico's primate city and the second-largest Spanish-speaking city proper in the world after Lima. Who acts: Mexico. 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According to the 2020 census, Mexico City proper had a population of 9,209,944 and a land area of 1495 km2, making it Mexico's primate city and the second-largest Spanish-speaking city proper in the world after Lima. **Who acts:** Mexico · **What happens:** accord, have, make, speak · **To what, where:** population, area, world · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (Mexico), 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:5 # text = According to the 2020 census, Mexico City proper had a population of 9,209,944 and a land area of 1495 km2, making it Mexico's primate city and the second-largest Spanish-speaking city proper in the world after Lima. 1 According accord VERB VBG ExtPos=ADP|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 5 case _ _ 2 to to ADP IN _ 1 fixed _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 2020 2020 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 5 nummod _ _ 5 census census NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 7 Mexico Mexico PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 8 City City PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 flat _ _ 9 proper properly ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 10 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 population population NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 13 of of ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 9,209,944 9,209,944 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 12 nmod _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 land land NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 compound _ _ 18 area area NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 conj _ _ 19 of of ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 1495 1495 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 18 nmod _ _ 21 km2 km2 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 20 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 23 making make VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 10 advcl _ _ 24 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 obj _ _ 25 Mexico Mexico PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 26 's 's PART POS _ 25 case _ _ 27 primate primate NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 compound _ _ 28 city city NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 31 second second ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 33 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 32 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 33 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 33 largest large ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 37 amod _ _ 34 Spanish Spanish ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 35 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 34 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 36 speaking speak VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 37 amod _ _ 37 city city NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 conj _ _ 38 proper properly ADV RB _ 41 advmod _ _ 39 in in ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 42 after after ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 43 Lima Lima PROPN NNP Number=Sing 41 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **accord** | gerund | | | | | | | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **have** | past | Mexico | a population of 9,209,944 and a land area of 1495 | | | | accord the 2020 census; properly *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent population=Patient | | 3 | **make** | gerund | Mexico *not said here* | area | | the world after Lima | | Mexico's primate city and the largest Spanish speaking city *obj* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset it=Beneficiary city=Product | | 4 | **speak** *speech: other* | gerund | | | | | | | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Mexico_City/4/) - next →: [sentence 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Mexico_City/6/) - ↑ back to [Mexico City](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Mexico_City/)