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title: A site atop the Raisina Hill, formerly Raisina Village , was chosen… — New Delhi · tree and pragmatics
description: A site atop the Raisina Hill, formerly Raisina Village , was chosen for the Rashtrapati Bhavan, then known as the Viceroy's House. A sentence of Wikipedia's «New Delhi» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# New Delhi, sentence 33

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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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A site atop the Raisina Hill, formerly Raisina Village , was chosen for the Rashtrapati Bhavan, then known as the Viceroy's House.

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**What happens:** choose, know · **To what, where:** site atop

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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: 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:33
# text = A site atop the Raisina Hill, formerly Raisina Village , was chosen for the Rashtrapati Bhavan, then known as the Viceroy's House.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	site	site	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	atop	atop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	Raisina	Raisina	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	Hill	Hill	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	formerly	formerly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	Raisina	Raisina	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	Village	Village	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	chosen	choose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	Rashtrapati	Rashtrapati	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	Bhavan	Bhavan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	20	advmod	_	_
20	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	conj	_	_
21	as	as	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	Viceroy	Viceroy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	's	's	PART	POS	_	23	case	_	_
25	House	House	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **choose** | past · passive |  | a site atop  the Raisina Hill |  |  |  | for the Rashtrapati Bhavan | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Theme for bhavan=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **know** | participle |  |  |  |  | then | as the Viceroy's House | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer as house=Attribute |

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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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