--- title: Following independence on August 15, 1947, Jawaharlal Nehru served a… — India · tree and pragmatics description: Following independence on August 15, 1947, Jawaharlal Nehru served as prime minister of the Dominion of India, remaining caretaker until 1951, shortly after India became a republic in 1950. Who acts: Jawaharlal, India. 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Following independence on August 15, 1947, Jawaharlal Nehru served as prime minister of the Dominion of India, remaining caretaker until 1951, shortly after India became a republic in 1950. **Who acts:** Jawaharlal, India · **What happens:** follow, serve, remain, become · **To what, where:** independence, 15, caretaker, republic, 1950 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 (Jawaharlal, India), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = wikipedia:India:191 # text = Following independence on August 15, 1947, Jawaharlal Nehru served as prime minister of the Dominion of India, remaining caretaker until 1951, shortly after India became a republic in 1950. 1 Following follow VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 5 csubj _ _ 2 independence independence NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 3 on on ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 August August PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nmod:unmarked _ _ 5 15 15 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 11 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 7 1947 1947 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 5 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 9 Jawaharlal Jawaharlal PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 10 Nehru Nehru PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 flat _ _ 11 served serve VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 12 as as ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 prime prime ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 minister minister NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 15 of of ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 Dominion Dominion PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 nmod _ _ 18 of of ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 India India PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 21 remaining remain VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 11 advcl _ _ 22 caretaker caretaker NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 23 until until ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 1951 1951 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 21 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 26 shortly shortly ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 27 after after SCONJ IN _ 29 mark _ _ 28 India India PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ _ 29 became become VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 republic republic NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 xcomp _ _ 32 in in ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 1950 1950 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 29 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 34 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **follow** | gerund | | independence | | | | | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent independence=Theme | | 2 | **serve** | past | Jawaharlal | | | 15 August | | as prime minister of the Dominion of India | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent as minister=Attribute | | 3 | **remain** | gerund | Jawaharlal *not said here* | caretaker | | | until 1951 | | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme caretaker=Attribute | | 4 | **become** | past | India | a republic | | | | in 1950 *result*; shortly *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in 1950=Result | 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, «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. - ← previous: [sentence 190](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/India/190/) - next →: [sentence 192](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/India/192/) - ↑ back to [India](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/India/)