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title: Sport in modern India is a cultural centre of gravity in whose orbit… — India · tree and pragmatics
description: Sport in modern India is a cultural centre of gravity in whose orbit lie both little-known, indigenous traditions and commercial sporting spectacles that now have a worldwide reach. Who acts: Sport. A sentence of Wikipedia's «India» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# India, sentence 483

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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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Sport in modern India is a cultural centre of gravity in whose orbit lie both little-known, indigenous traditions and commercial sporting spectacles that now have a worldwide reach.

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**Who acts:** Sport · **What happens:** be, lie, know, sport, have · **To what, where:** cultural centre, both, orbit, indigenous traditions

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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 (Sport), 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:483
# text = Sport in modern India is a cultural centre of gravity in whose orbit lie both little-known, indigenous traditions and commercial sporting spectacles that now have a worldwide reach.
1	Sport	sport	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	modern	modern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	India	India	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	cultural	cultural	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	centre	centre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	gravity	gravity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	orbit	orbit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
14	lie	lie	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
15	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	14	obj	_	_
16	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	indigenous	indigenous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	traditions	tradition	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	parataxis	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
23	commercial	commercial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
24	sporting	sport	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	25	amod	_	_
25	spectacles	spectacle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	conj	_	_
26	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	28	obj	_	_
27	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	28	advmod	_	_
28	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	acl:relcl	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	worldwide	worldwide	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	reach	reach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	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 | Sport in modern India | a cultural centre |  |  |  | of gravity; indigenous traditions and commercial sporting spectacles *parataxis* | tree rules |
| 2 | **lie** | present |  | both |  | orbit |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location both=Theme |
| 3 | **know** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **sport** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **have** | present |  | indigenous traditions and commercial sporting spectacles |  |  | now | a worldwide reach *obj* | tree rules |

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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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