In this paper, we discuss our efforts to anno-tate nominals in the Hindi Treebank with the semantic property of animacy. Although the treebank already encodes lexical information at a number of levels such as morph and part of speech, the addition of animacy informa-tion seems promising given its relevance to varied linguistic phenomena. The suggestion is based on the theoretical and computational analysis of the property of animacy in the con-text of anaphora resolution, syntactic parsing, verb classification and argument differentia-tion. 1