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title: Hindustan (ɦɪndʊˈstaːn) is a Middle Persian name for India that beca… — India · tree and pragmatics
description: Hindustan (ɦɪndʊˈstaːn) is a Middle Persian name for India that became popular by the 13th century, and was used widely since the era of the Mughal Empire. Who acts: Hindustan, that. A sentence of Wikipedia's «India» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# India, sentence 40

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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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Hindustan (ɦɪndʊˈstaːn) is a Middle Persian name for India that became popular by the 13th century, and was used widely since the era of the Mughal Empire.

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**Who acts:** Hindustan, that · **What happens:** be, become, use · **To what, where:** Middle Persian name

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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 (Hindustan, that), 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:40
# text = Hindustan (ɦɪndʊˈstaːn) is a Middle Persian name for India that became popular by the 13th century, and was used widely since the era of the Mughal Empire.
1	Hindustan	Hindustan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
2	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	ɦɪndʊˈstaːn	ɦɪndʊˈstaːn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	3	punct	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	Middle	Middle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
8	Persian	persian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	India	India	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
13	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
14	popular	popular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	xcomp	_	_
15	by	by	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	13th	13th	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Ord	18	amod	_	_
18	century	century	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux:pass	_	_
22	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	conj	_	_
23	widely	widely	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
24	since	since	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	era	era	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	Mughal	Mughal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	Empire	Empire	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Hindustan | a Middle Persian name |  |  |  | for India | tree rules |
| 2 | **become** | past | that |  |  |  | century | popular *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **use** | past · passive | that *not said here* |  |  |  | since the era of the Mughal Empire | widely *property* | vn eat-39.1 «NP V» |

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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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