--- title: The central legislature has two houses: the Lok Sabha, whose delegat… — India · tree and pragmatics description: The central legislature has two houses: the Lok Sabha, whose delegates are directly elected by the people in general elections every five years, and the Rajya Sabha, whose members are nominated by the elected representatives in the states. 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The central legislature has two houses: the Lok Sabha, whose delegates are directly elected by the people in general elections every five years, and the Rajya Sabha, whose members are nominated by the elected representatives in the states. **Who acts:** central legislature, people, elected representatives · **What happens:** have, elect, nominate · **To what, where:** two houses, delegates, members 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 (central legislature, people, elected representatives), 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:218 # text = The central legislature has two houses: the Lok Sabha, whose delegates are directly elected by the people in general elections every five years, and the Rajya Sabha, whose members are nominated by the elected representatives in the states. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 central central ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 legislature legislature NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 6 nummod _ _ 6 houses house NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 : : PUNCT : _ 9 punct _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 Lok Lok PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ 10 Sabha Sabha PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 12 whose whose PRON WP$ Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 delegates delegate NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nsubj:pass _ _ 14 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 aux:pass _ _ 15 directly directly ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 16 elected elect VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 acl:relcl _ _ 17 by by ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obl:agent _ _ 20 in in ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 general general ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 elections election NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nmod _ _ 23 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 25 det _ _ 24 five five NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 25 nummod _ _ 25 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obl:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 Rajya Rajya PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 conj _ _ 30 Sabha Sabha PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 32 whose whose PRON WP$ Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel 33 nmod:poss _ _ 33 members member NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 nsubj _ _ 34 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 35 aux:pass _ _ 35 nominated nominate VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 acl:relcl _ _ 36 by by ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 38 elected elect VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 39 amod _ _ 39 representatives representative NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 obl _ _ 40 in in ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 42 states state NOUN NNS Number=Plur 39 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | present | the central legislature | two houses the Lok and the Rajya | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Patient | | 2 | **elect** | present · passive | the people in general elections | delegates | | | year | directly *property* | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | | 3 | **nominate** | present · passive | the elected representatives in the states | members | | | | | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | | 4 | **elect** | participle | | | | | | | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | 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 217](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/India/217/) - next →: [sentence 219](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/India/219/) - ↑ back to [India](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/India/)