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title: Following the Indian Rebellion of 1857 the British government led by… — United Kingdom · tree and pragmatics
description: Following the Indian Rebellion of 1857 the British government led by Lord Palmerston assumed direct rule over India. Who acts: Following Indian Rebellion. A sentence of Wikipedia's «United Kingdom» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# United Kingdom, sentence 81

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From Wikipedia, [«United Kingdom»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom), 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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Following the Indian Rebellion of 1857 the British government led by Lord Palmerston assumed direct rule over India.

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**Who acts:** Following Indian Rebellion · **What happens:** follow, lead, assume · **To what, where:** British government, direct rule, India

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «United Kingdom». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Following Indian Rebellion), 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:United_Kingdom:81
# text = Following the Indian Rebellion of 1857 the British government led by Lord Palmerston assumed direct rule over India.
1	Following	follow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	amod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	Indian	Indian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	Rebellion	Rebellion	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	1857	1857	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	14	obl	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	British	British	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
10	led	lead	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl	_	_
11	by	by	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Lord	Lord	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl:agent	_	_
13	Palmerston	Palmerston	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	flat	_	_
14	assumed	assume	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	direct	direct	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	rule	rule	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	over	over	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	India	India	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **follow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **lead** | participle |  | the British government *not said here* |  |  |  | Lord *obl:agent* | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition |
| 3 | **assume** | past | the Following Indian Rebellion | direct rule |  | India |  | of 1857; the British government *nsubj* | vn adopt-93.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rule=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, «United Kingdom», 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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