The overall goal of our work is to build a dependency grammar-based human sentence processor for Hindi. As a first step towards this end, in this paper we present a dependency grammar that is motivated by psycholinguistic concerns. We describe the components of the grammar that have been automatically induced using a Hindi dependency treebank. We relate some aspects of the grammar to relevant ideas in the psycholinguistics literature. In the process, we also extract statistics and patterns for phenomena that are interesting from a processing perspective. We finally present an outline of a dependency grammar-based human sentence processor for Hindi. Mary, ‘John ’ and ‘Mary ’ are connected via arcs to ‘kissed’; the former arc bears the label ‘subject’ and the latter arc the label ‘object’. Taken together, these nodes with their connections form a tree. Figure 1 shows the dependency and the phrase structure trees for the above sentence. 1