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title: Medical advances made in the last 50 years as well as increased agri… — India · tree and pragmatics
description: Medical advances made in the last 50 years as well as increased agricultural productivity brought about by the "Green Revolution" have caused India's population to grow rapidly, though India's decennial rates of growth are decreasing: its population grew by 17.64% from 2001 to 2011, compared to 21.5
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# India, sentence 290

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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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Medical advances made in the last 50 years as well as increased agricultural productivity brought about by the "Green Revolution" have caused India's population to grow rapidly, though India's decennial rates of growth are decreasing: its population grew by 17.64% from 2001 to 2011, compared to 21.54% growth in the previous decade (1991–2001).

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**Who acts:** decennial rates, population · **What happens:** make, increase, bring about, cause, grow, decrease · **To what, where:** Medical advances, agricultural productivity, 2001, 1991

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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 (decennial rates, population), 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:290
# text = Medical advances made in the last 50 years as well as increased agricultural productivity brought about by the "Green Revolution" have caused India's population to grow rapidly, though India's decennial rates of growth are decreasing: its population grew by 17.64% from 2001 to 2011, compared to 21.54% growth in the previous decade (1991–2001).
1	Medical	medical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	advances	advance	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	50	50	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
9	as	as	ADV	RB	ExtPos=CCONJ	12	cc	_	_
10	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	9	fixed	_	_
11	as	as	ADP	IN	_	9	fixed	_	_
12	increased	increase	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
13	agricultural	agricultural	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	productivity	productivity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	brought	bring	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	acl	_	_
16	about	about	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
17	by	by	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
19	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	Green	Green	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	Revolution	Revolution	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	21	punct	_	_
23	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	caused	cause	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
25	India	India	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	's	's	PART	POS	_	25	case	_	_
27	population	population	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	grow	grow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	acl	_	_
30	rapidly	rapidly	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
32	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	40	mark	_	_
33	India	India	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	's	's	PART	POS	_	33	case	_	_
35	decennial	decennial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	rates	rate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	nsubj	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	growth	growth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nmod	_	_
39	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	40	aux	_	_
40	decreasing	decrease	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	44	punct	_	_
42	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	43	nmod:poss	_	_
43	population	population	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	nsubj	_	_
44	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	conj	_	_
45	by	by	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
46	17.64	17.64	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	47	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	%	%	SYM	NN	Number=Sing	44	obl	_	_
48	from	from	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
49	2001	2001	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	44	obl	_	_
50	to	to	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
51	2011	2011	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	49	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	53	punct	_	_
53	compared	compare	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	44	conj	_	_
54	to	to	ADP	IN	_	57	case	_	_
55	21.54	21.54	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	56	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	%	%	SYM	NN	Number=Sing	57	compound	_	_
57	growth	growth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	obl	_	_
58	in	in	ADP	IN	_	61	case	_	_
59	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	61	det	_	_
60	previous	previous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	61	amod	_	_
61	decade	decade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	obl	_	_
62	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	63	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
63	1991	1991	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	53	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
64	–	–	SYM	SYM	ExtPos=ADP	65	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
65	2001	2001	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	63	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
66	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	63	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
67	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	24	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | participle |  | Medical advances *not said here* |  |  | year |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 2 | **increase** | participle |  | agricultural productivity |  |  |  |  | vn caused\_calibratable\_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Causer productivity=Patient |
| 3 | **bring about** | participle |  | agricultural productivity *not said here* |  |  |  | by the Green Revolution; about *property* | vn engender-27.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition |
| 4 | **cause** | present · perfect · passive |  | Medical advances |  |  |  | India's population *obj* | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Theme population=Eventuality |
| 5 | **grow** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | rapidly *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **decrease** | present · progressive | India's decennial rates of growth |  |  |  |  |  | vn caused\_calibratable\_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 7 | **grow** | past | rate's population |  |  | 2001 to 2011 |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient by %=Extent from 2001=Initial\_State |
| 8 | **compare** | past | rate's population *not said here* | 1991 – 2001 |  |  | decade | to % growth | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient |

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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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