India, sentence 381
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.
Multi-generational patrilineal joint families have been the norm in India, though nuclear families are becoming common in urban areas.
Who acts: Multi-generational joint families, nuclear families · What happens: be, become · To what, where: norm, India
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 (Multi-generational joint families, nuclear families), 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 | Multi-generational | multi-generational | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 families | amod |
| 2 | patrilineal | patrilineal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 joint | compound |
| 3 | joint | joint | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 families | compound |
| 4 | families | family | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 norm | nsubj |
| 5 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 norm | aux |
| 6 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 norm | cop |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 norm | det |
| 8 | norm | norm | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 India | case |
| 10 | India | India | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 norm | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 becoming | punct |
| 12 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 16 becoming | mark |
| 13 | nuclear | nuclear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 families | amod |
| 14 | families | family | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 becoming | nsubj |
| 15 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 becoming | aux |
| 16 | becoming | become | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 norm | advcl |
| 17 | common | common | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 becoming | xcomp |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 areas | case |
| 19 | urban | urban | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 areas | amod |
| 20 | areas | area | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 common | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 norm | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present · perfect | Multi-generational joint families | the norm | India | tree rules | |||
| 2 | become | present · progressive | nuclear families | common property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
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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