--- title: In Indian English "do the needful" means do what is needed, "revert"… — Accents and dialects around the world · tree and pragmatics description: In Indian English "do the needful" means do what is needed, "revert" often means reply, and "prepone" means move to an earlier time; Indian English is spoken by many millions. Who acts: revert, prepone, many millions. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (revert, prepone, many millions), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:language:019-accents-and-dialects-around-the-world.lesson:9 # text = In Indian English "do the needful" means do what is needed, "revert" often means reply, and "prepone" means move to an earlier time; Indian English is spoken by many millions. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = language # lesson = 019-accents-and-dialects-around-the-world.lesson # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R1-cc-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 In in ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 Indian Indian ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 English English PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 4 " " PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ _ 5 do do VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 nsubj _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 needful needful NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 8 " " PUNCT '' _ 7 punct _ _ 9 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 do do VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 ccomp _ _ 11 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 10 obj _ _ 12 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 aux:pass _ _ 13 needed need VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 11 acl:relcl _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 15 " " PUNCT `` _ 16 punct _ _ 16 revert revert NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 17 " " PUNCT '' _ 16 punct _ _ 18 often often ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 19 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 20 reply reply NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=19:cc 23 " " PUNCT `` _ 24 punct _ _ 24 prepone prepone NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 25 " " PUNCT '' _ 24 punct _ _ 26 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 conj _ _ 27 move move VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 26 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=26:ccomp|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 to to ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 29 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 30 earlier early ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 31 amod _ _ 31 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 32 ; ; PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 33 Indian Indian ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 34 English English PROPN NNP Number=Sing 36 nsubj _ _ 35 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 36 aux:pass _ _ 36 spoken speak VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 19 conj _ _ 37 by by ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 amod _ _ 39 millions million NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 obl _ _ 40 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **do** *in a quote* | present | | the needful | | Indian English | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent needful=Eventuality | | 2 | **mean** | present | | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **do** | present | | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | | 4 | **need** | present · passive | | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF» | | 5 | **mean** | present | revert | reply | | | | often *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reply=Topic | | 6 | **mean** | present | prepone | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 7 | **move** *not said to happen* | infinitive | prepone *not said here* | | | | time | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 8 | **speak** *speech: other* | present · passive | many millions | Indian English | | | | | tree rules | 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. **Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. 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