India, sentence 218
From Wikipedia, «India», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC 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 central legislature has two houses: the Lok Sabha, whose delegates are directly elected by the people in general elections every five years, and the Rajya Sabha, whose members are nominated by the elected representatives in the states.
Who acts: central legislature, people, elected representatives · What happens: have, elect, nominate · To what, where: two houses, delegates, members
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «India». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (central legislature, people, elected representatives), 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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 legislature | det |
| 2 | central | central | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 legislature | amod |
| 3 | legislature | legislature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 has | nsubj |
| 4 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 houses | nummod |
| 6 | houses | house | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 has | obj |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 Lok | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Lok | det |
| 9 | Lok | Lok | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 houses | nmod |
| 10 | Sabha | Sabha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Lok | flat |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 elected | punct |
| 12 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 13 delegates | nmod:poss |
| 13 | delegates | delegate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 elected | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 elected | aux:pass |
| 15 | directly | directly | ADV | _ | 16 elected | advmod |
| 16 | elected | elect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 Lok | acl:relcl |
| 17 | by | by | ADP | _ | 19 people | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 people | det |
| 19 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 elected | obl:agent |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 elections | case |
| 21 | general | general | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 elections | amod |
| 22 | elections | election | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 people | nmod |
| 23 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 25 years | det |
| 24 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 25 years | nummod |
| 25 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 elected | obl:unmarked |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 Rajya | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 Rajya | cc |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 Rajya | det |
| 29 | Rajya | Rajya | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Lok | conj |
| 30 | Sabha | Sabha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 Rajya | flat |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 nominated | punct |
| 32 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 33 members | nmod:poss |
| 33 | members | member | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 nominated | nsubj |
| 34 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 35 nominated | aux:pass |
| 35 | nominated | nominate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 Lok | acl:relcl |
| 36 | by | by | ADP | _ | 39 representatives | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 representatives | det |
| 38 | elected | elect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 39 representatives | amod |
| 39 | representatives | representative | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 nominated | obl |
| 40 | in | in | ADP | _ | 42 states | case |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 states | det |
| 42 | states | state | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 representatives | nmod |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 has | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | the central legislature | two houses the Lok and the Rajya | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Patient | ||||
| 2 | elect | present · passive | the people in general elections | delegates | year | directly property | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | ||
| 3 | nominate | present · passive | the elected representatives in the states | members | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | ||||
| 4 | elect | participle | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: 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, «India», 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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