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title: The New Delhi Railway Station opened in 1926, with a single platform… — New Delhi · tree and pragmatics
description: The New Delhi Railway Station opened in 1926, with a single platform at Ajmeri Gate near Paharganj, and was completed in time for the city's inauguration in 1931. Who acts: Delhi Railway Station, city. A sentence of Wikipedia's «New Delhi» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# New Delhi, sentence 42

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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 New Delhi Railway Station opened in 1926, with a single platform at Ajmeri Gate near Paharganj, and was completed in time for the city's inauguration in 1931.

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**Who acts:** Delhi Railway Station, city · **What happens:** open, complete, inaugurate · **To what, where:** 1926, 1931

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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 (Delhi Railway Station, 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:42
# text = The New Delhi Railway Station opened in 1926, with a single platform at Ajmeri Gate near Paharganj, and was completed in time for the city's inauguration in 1931.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	New	New	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Delhi	Delhi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
4	Railway	Railway	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	Station	Station	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	opened	open	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	1926	1926	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	single	single	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	platform	platform	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
14	at	at	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	Ajmeri	Ajmeri	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	Gate	Gate	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
17	near	near	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	Paharganj	Paharganj	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux:pass	_	_
22	completed	complete	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
25	for	for	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	's	's	PART	POS	_	27	case	_	_
29	inauguration	inauguration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	1931	1931	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **open** | past | the Delhi Railway Station |  |  | 1926 |  | with a single platform at Ajmeri Gate near Paharganj | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent in 1926=Location |
| 2 | **complete** | past · passive | the Delhi Railway Station *not said here* |  |  | 1931 | time | for the city's inauguration | vn complete-55.2 «NP V S\_ING» |
| 3 | **inaugurate** |  | the city |  |  |  |  |  | nom inauguration «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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