India, sentence 67
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.
Following his conquest of Kalinga, in which his forces caused immense loss of life, Ashoka adopted Buddhism, subsequently adopting a policy of dhamma and commissioning numerous rock and pillar edicts throughout the Maurya Empire to promote ethical conduct, non-violence, and social welfare.
Who acts: forces, Ashoka · What happens: follow, cause, adopt, commission, promote · To what, where: immense loss, Buddhism, policy, numerous rock, ethical conduct
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 (forces, Ashoka), 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 | Following | follow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 conquest | case |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 conquest | nmod:poss |
| 3 | conquest | conquest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 caused | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Kalinga | case |
| 5 | Kalinga | Kalinga | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 conquest | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 caused | punct |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 which | case |
| 8 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 caused | obl |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 forces | nmod:poss |
| 10 | forces | force | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 caused | nsubj |
| 11 | caused | cause | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | immense | immense | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 loss | amod |
| 13 | loss | loss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 caused | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 life | case |
| 15 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 loss | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 adopted | punct |
| 17 | Ashoka | Ashoka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 adopted | nsubj |
| 18 | adopted | adopt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 caused | conj |
| 19 | Buddhism | Buddhism | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 adopted | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 adopting | punct |
| 21 | subsequently | subsequently | ADV | _ | 22 adopting | advmod |
| 22 | adopting | adopt | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 adopted | advcl |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 policy | det |
| 24 | policy | policy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 adopting | obj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 dhamma | case |
| 26 | dhamma | dhamma | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 policy | nmod |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 commissioning | cc |
| 28 | commissioning | commission | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 adopting | conj |
| 29 | numerous | numerous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 rock | amod |
| 30 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 commissioning | obj |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 edicts | cc |
| 32 | pillar | pillar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 edicts | compound |
| 33 | edicts | edict | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 rock | conj |
| 34 | throughout | throughout | ADP | _ | 37 Empire | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 Empire | det |
| 36 | Maurya | Maurya | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 Empire | compound |
| 37 | Empire | Empire | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 commissioning | obl |
| 38 | to | to | PART | _ | 39 promote | mark |
| 39 | promote | promote | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 commissioning | advcl |
| 40 | ethical | ethical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 conduct | amod |
| 41 | conduct | conduct | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 promote | obj |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 non-violence | punct |
| 43 | non-violence | non-violence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 conduct | conj |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 welfare | punct |
| 45 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 47 welfare | cc |
| 46 | social | social | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 47 welfare | amod |
| 47 | welfare | welfare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 caused | obl |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 caused | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | cause | past | Empire's forces | immense loss of life | follow Empire's conquest of Kalinga; social welfare obl; which obl | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition loss=Patient | |||
| 3 | adopt | past | Ashoka | Buddhism | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent buddhism=Theme | ||||
| 4 | adopt | gerund | Ashoka not said here | a policy of dhamma | subsequently property | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent policy=Theme | |||
| 5 | commission | gerund | Ashoka not said here | numerous rock and pillar edicts | throughout the Maurya Empire | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rock=Theme | |||
| 6 | promote | to-infinitive | Ashoka not said here | ethical conduct and non-violence | vn promote-102 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent conduct=Theme |
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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