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title: In 2017, NBA commissioner Adam Silver expressed interest in placing… — Mexico City · tree and pragmatics
description: In 2017, NBA commissioner Adam Silver expressed interest in placing an NBA G League expansion team in Mexico City as early as 2018. Who acts: Adam. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Mexico City» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Mexico City, sentence 575

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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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In 2017, NBA commissioner Adam Silver expressed interest in placing an NBA G League expansion team in Mexico City as early as 2018.

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**Who acts:** Adam · **What happens:** express, place · **To what, where:** interest, 2017, League expansion team, Mexico City

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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 (Adam), 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:575
# text = In 2017, NBA commissioner Adam Silver expressed interest in placing an NBA G League expansion team in Mexico City as early as 2018.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	2017	2017	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	NBA	NBA	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	commissioner	commissioner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod:desc	_	_
6	Adam	Adam	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
7	Silver	Silver	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	_
8	expressed	express	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	interest	interest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
10	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
11	placing	place	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
12	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
13	NBA	NBA	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	G	G	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	League	League	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
16	expansion	expansion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	team	team	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	Mexico	Mexico	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	City	City	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
21	as	as	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	early	early	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	11	advmod	_	_
23	as	as	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	2018	2018	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **express** | past | Adam  NBA commissioner | interest |  | 2017 |  |  | vn reflexive\_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent interest=Theme |
| 2 | **place** | gerund | Adam  NBA commissioner *not said here* | a League expansion team |  | Mexico City |  | early *property* | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent team=Theme in city=Destination |

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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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