New Delhi, sentence 184
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.
The fact that there were any indigenous features in the design was due to the persistence and urging of both the Viceroy Hardinge and historians like E.B.
Who acts: indigenous features, fact · What happens: be, urge · To what, where: fact, Viceroy Hardinge
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 (indigenous features, fact), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 fact | det |
| 2 | fact | fact | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 persistence | nsubj |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 5 were | mark |
| 4 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 5 were | expl |
| 5 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 fact | acl |
| 6 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 8 features | det |
| 7 | indigenous | indigenous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 features | amod |
| 8 | features | feature | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 were | nsubj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 design | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 design | det |
| 11 | design | design | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 features | nmod |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 persistence | cop |
| 13 | due | due | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 16 persistence | case |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 due | fixed |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 persistence | det |
| 16 | persistence | persistence | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 urging | cc |
| 18 | urging | urging | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 persistence | conj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 Hardinge | case |
| 20 | both | both | CCONJ | _ | 23 Hardinge | cc:preconj |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Hardinge | det |
| 22 | Viceroy | Viceroy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Hardinge | compound |
| 23 | Hardinge | Hardinge | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 urging | nmod |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 historians | cc |
| 25 | historians | historian | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 Hardinge | conj |
| 26 | like | like | ADP | _ | 27 E.B | case |
| 27 | E.B | E.B | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 historians | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 persistence | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | any indigenous features in the design | the fact not said here | there | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot fact=Theme | |||
| 2 | is | past | the fact | due the persistence and urging of the Viceroy Hardinge and historians like E.B; urging of the Viceroy Hardinge and historians like E.B conj | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | urge | the Viceroy Hardinge and historians like E.B | nom urging «communication transitive»: of=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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