New Delhi, sentence 33
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.
A site atop the Raisina Hill, formerly Raisina Village , was chosen for the Rashtrapati Bhavan, then known as the Viceroy's House.
What happens: choose, know · To what, where: site atop
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: 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 atop | det |
| 2 | site | site | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 atop | compound |
| 3 | atop | atop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 chosen | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Hill | det |
| 5 | Raisina | Raisina | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Hill | compound |
| 6 | Hill | Hill | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 atop | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Village | punct |
| 8 | formerly | formerly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 Village | amod |
| 9 | Raisina | Raisina | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Village | compound |
| 10 | Village | Village | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Hill | appos |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 atop | punct |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 chosen | aux:pass |
| 13 | chosen | choose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 Bhavan | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Bhavan | det |
| 16 | Rashtrapati | Rashtrapati | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Bhavan | compound |
| 17 | Bhavan | Bhavan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 chosen | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 known | punct |
| 19 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 20 known | advmod |
| 20 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 chosen | conj |
| 21 | as | as | ADP | _ | 25 House | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Viceroy | det |
| 23 | Viceroy | Viceroy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 House | nmod:poss |
| 24 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 23 Viceroy | case |
| 25 | House | House | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 known | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 chosen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | choose | past · passive | a site atop the Raisina Hill | for the Rashtrapati Bhavan | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Theme for bhavan=Beneficiary | ||||
| 2 | know | participle | then | as the Viceroy's House | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer as house=Attribute |
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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