International Journal of Computational Linguistics Research Kalyanamalini Sahoo 7 1 2016 This article discusses the parsing of multi-verb constructions in the Indic language Odia, in a Deterministic Finite State Automaton (DFA). It deals with two verb (V-v) sequences, and in the case of passivization, 3 verb sequences. These V-v sequences are formed by combining a main verb and a fully or partially bleached ‘light’ verb; where the main verb carries the lexical semantic information; the Tense, Aspect, Mode marking occurs on the light verb; and the sequence as a whole determines the argument structure. Although both the verbs in the V-v sequences are form-identical with a main verb in the language, the second one is a light verb because of its semantic and grammatical bleaching. The verbs cannot change their position, and are always spelled as a single word. Such double positional slots for the verbs pose constraint for the processing of the string by DFA, as it would be different from a standardly accepted single verb string. Moreover, both the verbs vary in their grammatical and semantic functions, and hence, choose a particular type of verb to co-occur with. This paper proposes the parsing of such multi-verb constructions in a DFA. Such morphological parsing is new in Odia and can be used in various applications like morphological analyzer, spell-checker, machine translation, information retrieval, etc.