New Delhi, sentence 223
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.
Delhi Metro was India's first modern public transportation system, which had revolutionised travel by providing a fast, reliable, safe, and comfortable means of transport.
Who acts: Delhi Metro, comfortable · What happens: be, revolutionise, provide, mean · To what, where: first modern public transportation system
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 (Delhi Metro, comfortable), 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 | Delhi | Delhi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Metro | compound |
| 2 | Metro | Metro | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 system | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 system | cop |
| 4 | India | India | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 system | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 India | case |
| 6 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 10 system | amod |
| 7 | modern | modern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 system | amod |
| 8 | public | public | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 system | amod |
| 9 | transportation | transportation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 system | compound |
| 10 | system | system | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 revolutionised | punct |
| 12 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 revolutionised | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 revolutionised | aux |
| 14 | revolutionised | revolutionise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 system | acl |
| 15 | travel | travel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 revolutionised | obj |
| 16 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 17 providing | mark |
| 17 | providing | provide | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 revolutionised | advcl |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 fast | det |
| 19 | fast | fast | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 providing | xcomp |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 reliable | punct |
| 21 | reliable | reliable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 fast | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 safe | punct |
| 23 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 fast | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 means | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 means | cc |
| 26 | comfortable | comfortable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 means | nsubj |
| 27 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 fast | parataxis |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 transport | case |
| 29 | transport | transport | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 means | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 system | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Delhi Metro | India's first modern public transportation system | India nmod:poss | tree rules | |||
| 2 | revolutionise | past · perfect · passive | India's first modern public transportation system | travel obj | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | provide | gerund | fast property | vn ensure-99 «NP V that S»: agent=Precondition | |||||
| 4 | mean | present | comfortable | of transport | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
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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