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title: The city also had a bid to host the 1992 Summer Olympics, but withdr… — New Delhi · tree and pragmatics
description: The city also had a bid to host the 1992 Summer Olympics, but withdrew in March 1986, seven months before the host selection. Who acts: city. A sentence of Wikipedia's «New Delhi» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# New Delhi, sentence 239

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From Wikipedia, [«New Delhi»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Delhi), 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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The city also had a bid to host the 1992 Summer Olympics, but withdrew in March 1986, seven months before the host selection.

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**Who acts:** city · **What happens:** have, host, withdraw · **To what, where:** bid, 1992 Summer Olympics

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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 (city), 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:New_Delhi:239
# text = The city also had a bid to host the 1992 Summer Olympics, but withdrew in March 1986, seven months before the host selection.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	also	also	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	bid	bid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	host	host	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	acl	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	1992	1992	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
11	Summer	Summer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	Olympics	Olympic	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	withdrew	withdraw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	March	March	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
18	1986	1986	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	17	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	nummod	_	_
21	months	month	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
22	before	before	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	host	host	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	selection	selection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | the city | a bid |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bid=Patient |
| 2 | **host** | to-infinitive | the city *not said here* | a bid *not said here* | the 1992 Summer Olympics |  |  |  | vn captain-29.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent olympic=Beneficiary |
| 3 | **withdraw** | past | the city *not said here* |  |  |  | before the host selection; march; month |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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, «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.

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