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title: Multi-generational patrilineal joint families have been the norm in… — India · tree and pragmatics
description: Multi-generational patrilineal joint families have been the norm in India, though nuclear families are becoming common in urban areas. Who acts: Multi-generational joint families, nuclear families. A sentence of Wikipedia's «India» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# India, sentence 381

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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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Multi-generational patrilineal joint families have been the norm in India, though nuclear families are becoming common in urban areas.

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**Who acts:** Multi-generational joint families, nuclear families · **What happens:** be, become · **To what, where:** norm, India

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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 (Multi-generational joint families, nuclear families), 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:381
# text = Multi-generational patrilineal joint families have been the norm in India, though nuclear families are becoming common in urban areas.
1	Multi-generational	multi-generational	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
2	patrilineal	patrilineal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	joint	joint	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	families	family	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
5	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
6	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	8	cop	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	norm	norm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	India	India	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
13	nuclear	nuclear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	families	family	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
15	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	becoming	become	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
17	common	common	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	xcomp	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	urban	urban	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	areas	area	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present · perfect | Multi-generational joint families | the norm |  | India |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **become** | present · progressive | nuclear families |  |  |  |  | common *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: 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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