India, sentence 483
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.
Sport in modern India is a cultural centre of gravity in whose orbit lie both little-known, indigenous traditions and commercial sporting spectacles that now have a worldwide reach.
Who acts: Sport · What happens: be, lie, know, sport, have · To what, where: cultural centre, both, orbit, indigenous traditions
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 (Sport), 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 | Sport | sport | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 centre | nsubj |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 India | case |
| 3 | modern | modern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 India | amod |
| 4 | India | India | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Sport | nmod |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 centre | cop |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 centre | det |
| 7 | cultural | cultural | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 centre | amod |
| 8 | centre | centre | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 gravity | case |
| 10 | gravity | gravity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 centre | nmod |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 orbit | case |
| 12 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 13 orbit | nmod:poss |
| 13 | orbit | orbit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 lie | obl |
| 14 | lie | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 centre | parataxis |
| 15 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 lie | obj |
| 16 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 known | compound |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 little | punct |
| 18 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 both | acl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 traditions | punct |
| 20 | indigenous | indigenous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 traditions | amod |
| 21 | traditions | tradition | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 centre | parataxis |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 spectacles | cc |
| 23 | commercial | commercial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 spectacles | amod |
| 24 | sporting | sport | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 25 spectacles | amod |
| 25 | spectacles | spectacle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 traditions | conj |
| 26 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 have | obj |
| 27 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 28 have | advmod |
| 28 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 traditions | acl:relcl |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 reach | det |
| 30 | worldwide | worldwide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 reach | amod |
| 31 | reach | reach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 have | obj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 centre | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Sport in modern India | a cultural centre | of gravity; indigenous traditions and commercial sporting spectacles parataxis | tree rules | |||
| 2 | lie | present | both | orbit | vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location both=Theme | ||||
| 3 | know | participle | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 4 | sport | gerund | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | have | present | indigenous traditions and commercial sporting spectacles | now | a worldwide reach obj | tree rules |
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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