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title: The Constituent Assembly of India abolished untouchability in 1947,… — India · tree and pragmatics
description: The Constituent Assembly of India abolished untouchability in 1947, the Republic of India did more formally in 1950, and India has since enacted other anti-discriminatory laws and social welfare initiatives related to caste. Who acts: Constituent Assembly, Republic, India. A sentence of Wikipedia's 
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# India, sentence 379

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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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The Constituent Assembly of India abolished untouchability in 1947, the Republic of India did more formally in 1950, and India has since enacted other anti-discriminatory laws and social welfare initiatives related to caste.

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**Who acts:** Constituent Assembly, Republic, India · **What happens:** abolish, do, enact · **To what, where:** untouchability, 1947, 1950, other anti-discriminatory laws

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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 (Constituent Assembly, Republic, India), 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:379
# text = The Constituent Assembly of India abolished untouchability in 1947, the Republic of India did more formally in 1950, and India has since enacted other anti-discriminatory laws and social welfare initiatives related to caste.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Constituent	Constituent	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Assembly	Assembly	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	India	India	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	abolished	abolish	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	untouchability	untouchability	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	1947	1947	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	Republic	Republic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	India	India	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
15	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
16	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	17	advmod	_	_
17	formally	formally	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	1950	1950	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
22	India	India	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
23	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
24	since	since	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	enacted	enact	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	15	conj	_	_
26	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
27	anti-discriminatory	anti-discriminatory	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	laws	law	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obj	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
30	social	social	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
31	welfare	welfare	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
32	initiatives	initiative	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	conj	_	_
33	related	related	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
34	to	to	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	caste	caste	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **abolish** | past | the Constituent Assembly of India | untouchability |  | 1947 |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent untouchability=Theme |
| 2 | **do** | past | the Republic of India |  |  | 1950 |  | formally *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **enact** | present · perfect | India | other anti-discriminatory laws and social welfare initiatives |  |  |  | since *property* | vn performance-26.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent law=Theme |

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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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