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During the Delhi Durbar on 12 December 1911, George V while laying the foundation stone for the viceroy's residence in the Coronation Park, Kingsway Camp, declared that the capital of the Raj would be shifted from Calcutta to Delhi. **Who acts:** George · **What happens:** lay, declare, shift · **To what, where:** foundation stone, capital, Delhi, Calcutta · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «New Delhi». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (George), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:New_Delhi:18 # text = During the Delhi Durbar on 12 December 1911, George V while laying the foundation stone for the viceroy's residence in the Coronation Park, Kingsway Camp, declared that the capital of the Raj would be shifted from Calcutta to Delhi. 1 During during ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 Delhi Delhi PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 Durbar Durbar PROPN NNP Number=Sing 30 obl _ _ 5 on on ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 12 12 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 4 appos _ _ 7 December December PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nmod:unmarked _ _ 8 1911 1911 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 6 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 10 George George PROPN NNP Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ _ 11 V V PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 flat _ _ 12 while while SCONJ IN _ 13 mark _ _ 13 laying lay VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 10 acl _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 15 foundation foundation NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 compound _ _ 16 stone stone NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 17 for for ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 viceroy viceroy NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 20 's 's PART POS _ 19 case _ _ 21 residence residence NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 22 in in ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 24 Coronation Coronation PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 compound _ _ 25 Park Park PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 27 Kingsway Kingsway PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 compound _ _ 28 Camp Camp PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 30 declared declare VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 31 that that SCONJ IN _ 39 mark _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 capital capital NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 nsubj:pass _ _ 34 of of ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 Raj Raj PROPN NNP Number=Sing 33 nmod _ _ 37 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 39 aux _ _ 38 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 39 aux:pass _ _ 39 shifted shift VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 30 ccomp _ _ 40 from from ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 41 Calcutta Calcutta PROPN NNP Number=Sing 39 obl _ _ 42 to to ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 43 Delhi Delhi PROPN NNP Number=Sing 39 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 30 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **lay** | gerund | George *not said here* | the foundation stone | | | | for the viceroy's residence in the Coronation Park and Kingsway Camp | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent stone=Result for residence=Beneficiary | | 2 | **declare** *speech: other* | past | George | | | | during the Delhi Durbar | | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 3 | **shift** | would · passive | | the capital of the Raj | Delhi | Calcutta | | | vn caused\_calibratable\_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.initial\_state PP.result»: subject=Extent from calcutta=Initial\_State to delhi=Result | 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. **Text:** the English Wikipedia, «New Delhi», 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. - ← previous: [sentence 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/New_Delhi/17/) - next →: [sentence 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/New_Delhi/19/) - ↑ back to [New Delhi](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/New_Delhi/)