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title: Despite a government ban on sex-selective foeticide, the practice ha… — India · tree and pragmatics
description: Despite a government ban on sex-selective foeticide, the practice has far from stopped. Who acts: practice. A sentence of Wikipedia's «India» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# India, sentence 297

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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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Despite a government ban on sex-selective foeticide, the practice has far from stopped.

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**Who acts:** practice · **What happens:** have, stop

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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 (practice), 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:297
# text = Despite a government ban on sex-selective foeticide, the practice has far from stopped.
1	Despite	despite	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	ban	ban	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	sex	sex	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	selective	selective	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	foeticide	foeticide	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	practice	practice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	16	advmod	_	_
15	from	from	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
16	stopped	stop	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | the practice |  |  |  |  | despite a government ban on sex selective foeticide | tree rules |
| 2 | **stop** | participle | the practice *not said here* |  |  |  |  | far *property* | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |

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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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