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title: The Constitution (Sixty-ninth Amendment) Act, 1991 declared the Unio… — New Delhi · tree and pragmatics
description: The Constitution (Sixty-ninth Amendment) Act, 1991 declared the Union Territory of Delhi to be formally known as the National Capital Territory of Delhi. Who acts: Constitution. A sentence of Wikipedia's «New Delhi» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# New Delhi, sentence 52

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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 Constitution (Sixty-ninth Amendment) Act, 1991 declared the Union Territory of Delhi to be formally known as the National Capital Territory of Delhi.

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**Who acts:** Constitution · **What happens:** declare, know · **To what, where:** Union Territory

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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 (Constitution), 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:52
# text = The Constitution (Sixty-ninth Amendment) Act, 1991 declared the Union Territory of Delhi to be formally known as the National Capital Territory of Delhi.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Constitution	constitution	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
3	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	Sixty	sixty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	ninth	ninth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	Amendment	amendment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	7	punct	_	_
9	Act	act	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	1991	1991	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	conj	_	_
12	declared	declare	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	Union	Union	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	Territory	territory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	Delhi	Delhi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
19	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	aux:pass	_	_
20	formally	formally	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	advcl	_	_
22	as	as	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
24	National	National	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
25	Capital	Capital	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	Territory	Territory	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	Delhi	Delhi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **declare** *speech: other* | past | the Constitution | the Union Territory of Delhi |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent territory=Attribute |
| 2 | **know** | to-infinitive · passive | the Constitution *not said here* |  |  |  |  | as the National Capital Territory of Delhi; formally *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: as territory=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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