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# India, sentence 108

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From Wikipedia, [«India»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/India), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.

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Its control of the seas, greater resources, and more advanced military training and technology led it to assert its military strength increasingly and caused it to become attractive to a portion of the Indian elite; these factors were crucial in allowing the company to gain control over the Bengal region by 1765 and sideline the other European companies.

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**Who acts:** control, Company, factors · **What happens:** lead, assert, cause, become, be, allow · **To what, where:** Company, military strength, control, Bengal region, other European companies

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «India». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (control, Company, factors), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = wikipedia:India:108
# text = Its control of the seas, greater resources, and more advanced military training and technology led it to assert its military strength increasingly and caused it to become attractive to a portion of the Indian elite; these factors were crucial in allowing the company to gain control over the Bengal region by 1765 and sideline the other European companies.
1	Its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	control	control	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	seas	sea	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	greater	great	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	8	amod	_	_
8	resources	resource	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
11	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	12	advmod	_	_
12	advanced	advanced	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
13	military	military	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	training	training	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	technology	technology	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
17	led	lead	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	assert	assert	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	xcomp	_	_
21	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
22	military	military	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	strength	strength	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
24	increasingly	increasingly	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	caused	cause	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
27	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	become	become	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	xcomp	_	_
30	attractive	attractive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	xcomp	_	_
31	to	to	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	portion	portion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	Indian	Indian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	elite	elite	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
39	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	40	det	_	_
40	factors	factor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	42	nsubj	_	_
41	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	42	cop	_	_
42	crucial	crucial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	parataxis	_	_
43	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	44	mark	_	_
44	allowing	allow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	42	advcl	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	company	company	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obj	_	_
47	to	to	PART	TO	_	48	mark	_	_
48	gain	gain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	44	xcomp	_	_
49	control	control	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	obj	_	_
50	over	over	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
51	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	53	det	_	_
52	Bengal	Bengal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	53	compound	_	_
53	region	region	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	nmod	_	_
54	by	by	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
55	1765	1765	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	48	obl	_	_
56	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	57	cc	_	_
57	sideline	sideline	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	48	conj	_	_
58	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	61	det	_	_
59	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	61	amod	_	_
60	European	European	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	61	amod	_	_
61	companies	company	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	57	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
62	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lead** | past | Company's control of the seas and greater resources and advanced military training and technology | Company |  |  |  |  | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent it=Patient clause=Result |
| 2 | **assert** | to-infinitive | Company *not said here* | Company's military strength |  |  |  | increasingly *property* | vn reflexive\_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent strength=Theme |
| 3 | **cause** | past | Company's control of the seas and greater resources and advanced military training and technology *not said here* | Company |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **become** | to-infinitive | Company *not said here* |  |  |  |  | attractive *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **is** | past | this factors |  |  |  |  | crucial *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **allow** | gerund | this factors *not said here* | the company |  |  |  |  | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer company=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality |
| 7 | **gain** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the company *not said here* | control |  | the Bengal region |  | by 1765 | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent control=Theme |
| 8 | **sideline** | infinitive | the company *not said here* | the other European companies |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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**Text:** the English Wikipedia, «India», 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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