India, sentence 40
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.
Hindustan (ɦɪndʊˈstaːn) is a Middle Persian name for India that became popular by the 13th century, and was used widely since the era of the Mughal Empire.
Who acts: Hindustan, that · What happens: be, become, use · To what, where: Middle Persian name
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 (Hindustan, that), 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 | Hindustan | Hindustan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 name | nsubj |
| 2 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 3 ɦɪndʊˈstaːn | punct |
| 3 | ɦɪndʊˈstaːn | ɦɪndʊˈstaːn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Hindustan | appos |
| 4 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 3 ɦɪndʊˈstaːn | punct |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 name | cop |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 name | det |
| 7 | Middle | Middle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 name | compound |
| 8 | Persian | persian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 name | amod |
| 9 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 India | case |
| 11 | India | India | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 name | nmod |
| 12 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 became | nsubj |
| 13 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 name | parataxis |
| 14 | popular | popular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 became | xcomp |
| 15 | by | by | ADP | _ | 18 century | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 century | det |
| 17 | 13th | 13th | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Combi NumType=Ord | 18 century | amod |
| 18 | century | century | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 became | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 used | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 used | cc |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 used | aux:pass |
| 22 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 became | conj |
| 23 | widely | widely | ADV | _ | 22 used | advmod |
| 24 | since | since | ADP | _ | 26 era | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 era | det |
| 26 | era | era | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 used | obl |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 Empire | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 Empire | det |
| 29 | Mughal | Mughal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 Empire | compound |
| 30 | Empire | Empire | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 era | nmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 name | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Hindustan | a Middle Persian name | for India | tree rules | |||
| 2 | become | past | that | century | popular property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | |||
| 3 | use | past · passive | that not said here | since the era of the Mughal Empire | widely property | vn eat-39.1 «NP V» |
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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