New Delhi, sentence 31
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 central axis of New Delhi, which today faces east at India Gate, was previously meant to be a north–south axis linking the Viceroy's House at one end with Paharganj at the other.
Who acts: central axis, south axis · What happens: face, mean, be, link · To what, where: India Gate, central axis, other, north, House, one end
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 (central axis, south axis), 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 | 3 axis | det |
| 2 | central | central | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 axis | amod |
| 3 | axis | axis | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 meant | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Delhi | case |
| 5 | New | New | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 Delhi | amod |
| 6 | Delhi | Delhi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 axis | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 faces | punct |
| 8 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 faces | nsubj |
| 9 | today | today | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 faces | obl:unmarked |
| 10 | faces | face | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 axis | parataxis |
| 11 | east | east | ADV | _ | 10 faces | advmod |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 Gate | case |
| 13 | India | India | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Gate | compound |
| 14 | Gate | Gate | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 faces | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 axis | punct |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 meant | aux:pass |
| 17 | previously | previously | ADV | _ | 18 meant | advmod |
| 18 | meant | mean | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 north | mark |
| 20 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 22 north | cop |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 north | det |
| 22 | north | north | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 meant | xcomp |
| 23 | – | - | PUNCT | _ | 25 axis | punct |
| 24 | south | South | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 axis | amod |
| 25 | axis | axis | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 north | conj |
| 26 | linking | link | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 25 axis | acl |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 Viceroy | det |
| 28 | Viceroy | Viceroy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 House | nmod:poss |
| 29 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 28 Viceroy | case |
| 30 | House | House | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 linking | obj |
| 31 | at | at | ADP | _ | 33 end | case |
| 32 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 33 end | nummod |
| 33 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 linking | obl |
| 34 | with | with | ADP | _ | 35 Paharganj | case |
| 35 | Paharganj | Paharganj | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 north | nmod |
| 36 | at | at | ADP | _ | 38 other | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 other | det |
| 38 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 meant | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 meant | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | face | present | the central axis of New Delhi | India Gate | today | east property | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | ||
| 2 | mean | past · passive | the central axis of New Delhi | the other | previously property | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | |||
| 3 | is a not said to happen | to-infinitive | a north and south axis | with Paharganj; south axis conj | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | link | gerund | south axis not said here | the Viceroy's House | at one end | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=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.
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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