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title: The central axis of New Delhi, which today faces east at India Gate,… — New Delhi · tree and pragmatics
description: The central axis of New Delhi, which today faces east at India Gate, was previously meant to be a north–south axis linking the Viceroy's House at one end with Paharganj at the other. Who acts: central axis, south axis. A sentence of Wikipedia's «New Delhi» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# New Delhi, sentence 31

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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 central axis of New Delhi, which today faces east at India Gate, was previously meant to be a north–south axis linking the Viceroy's House at one end with Paharganj at the other.

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**Who acts:** central axis, south axis · **What happens:** face, mean, be, link · **To what, where:** India Gate, central axis, other, north, House, one end

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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 (central axis, south axis), 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:31
# text = The central axis of New Delhi, which today faces east at India Gate, was previously meant to be a north–south axis linking the Viceroy's House at one end with Paharganj at the other.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	central	central	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	axis	axis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	New	New	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	Delhi	Delhi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
9	today	today	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl:unmarked	_	_
10	faces	face	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
11	east	east	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	at	at	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	India	India	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	Gate	Gate	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux:pass	_	_
17	previously	previously	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	meant	mean	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
20	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	cop	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	north	north	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	–	-	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	south	South	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	axis	axis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	_
26	linking	link	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	25	acl	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	Viceroy	Viceroy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	's	's	PART	POS	_	28	case	_	_
30	House	House	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
31	at	at	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	33	nummod	_	_
33	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
34	with	with	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	Paharganj	Paharganj	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
36	at	at	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **face** | present | the central axis of New Delhi |  |  | India Gate | today | east *property* | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **mean** | past · passive |  | the central axis of New Delhi |  | the other |  | previously *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
| 3 | **is a** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  | a north and south axis |  |  |  | with Paharganj; south axis *conj* | tree rules |
| 4 | **link** | gerund | south axis *not said here* | the Viceroy's House |  |  | at one end |  | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Patient |

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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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