New Delhi, sentence 18
From Wikipedia, «New Delhi», 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.
During the Delhi Durbar on 12 December 1911, George V while laying the foundation stone for the viceroy's residence in the Coronation Park, Kingsway Camp, declared that the capital of the Raj would be shifted from Calcutta to Delhi.
Who acts: George · What happens: lay, declare, shift · To what, where: foundation stone, capital, Delhi, Calcutta · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «New Delhi». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (George), 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 | During | during | ADP | _ | 4 Durbar | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Durbar | det |
| 3 | Delhi | Delhi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Durbar | compound |
| 4 | Durbar | Durbar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 declared | obl |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 12 | case |
| 6 | 12 | 12 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 Durbar | appos |
| 7 | December | December | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 12 | nmod:unmarked |
| 8 | 1911 | 1911 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 12 | flat |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 George | punct |
| 10 | George | George | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 declared | nsubj |
| 11 | V | V | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 George | flat |
| 12 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 13 laying | mark |
| 13 | laying | lay | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 George | acl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 stone | det |
| 15 | foundation | foundation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 stone | compound |
| 16 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 laying | obj |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 residence | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 viceroy | det |
| 19 | viceroy | viceroy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 residence | nmod:poss |
| 20 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 19 viceroy | case |
| 21 | residence | residence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 laying | obl |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 Park | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 Park | det |
| 24 | Coronation | Coronation | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 Park | compound |
| 25 | Park | Park | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 residence | nmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 Camp | punct |
| 27 | Kingsway | Kingsway | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 Camp | compound |
| 28 | Camp | Camp | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 Park | conj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 George | punct |
| 30 | declared | declare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 31 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 39 shifted | mark |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 capital | det |
| 33 | capital | capital | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 shifted | nsubj:pass |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 Raj | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 Raj | det |
| 36 | Raj | Raj | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 capital | nmod |
| 37 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 39 shifted | aux |
| 38 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 39 shifted | aux:pass |
| 39 | shifted | shift | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 30 declared | ccomp |
| 40 | from | from | ADP | _ | 41 Calcutta | case |
| 41 | Calcutta | Calcutta | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 shifted | obl |
| 42 | to | to | ADP | _ | 43 Delhi | case |
| 43 | Delhi | Delhi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 shifted | obl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 30 declared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lay | gerund | George not said here | the foundation stone | for the viceroy's residence in the Coronation Park and Kingsway Camp | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent stone=Result for residence=Beneficiary | |||
| 2 | declare speech: other | past | George | during the Delhi Durbar | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 3 | shift | would · passive | the capital of the Raj | Delhi | Calcutta | vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.initial_state PP.result»: subject=Extent from calcutta=Initial_State to delhi=Result |
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, «New Delhi», 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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