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title: Across the north, this became rather stiff and formulaic after c., t… — India · tree and pragmatics
description: Across the north, this became rather stiff and formulaic after c., though rich with finely carved detail in the surrounds of statues. Who acts: this. A sentence of Wikipedia's «India» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# India, sentence 406

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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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Across the north, this became rather stiff and formulaic after c., though rich with finely carved detail in the surrounds of statues.

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**Who acts:** this · **What happens:** become, carve · **To what, where:** north

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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 (this), 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:406
# text = Across the north, this became rather stiff and formulaic after c., though rich with finely carved detail in the surrounds of statues.
1	Across	across	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	north	north	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	nsubj	_	_
6	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	rather	rather	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	stiff	stiff	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	xcomp	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	formulaic	formulaic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	conj	_	_
11	after	after	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	c.	c.	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
15	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	finely	finely	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	carved	carve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	amod	_	_
19	detail	detail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	surrounds	surround	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	statues	statue	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **become** | past | this |  |  | the north |  | stiff *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **carve** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | finely *property* | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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