Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Makhdum Niamat Ullah and Makhdum Nuh., sentence 1
Early in the 18th century the greatest saint in Sind was Makhdum Niamat Ullah, the father of a still greater religious luminary, the famous Makhdum Nuh.
Who acts: greatest saint · What happens: be · To what, where: Makhdum Niamat
This is a sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Makhdum Niamat Ullah and Makhdum Nuh.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (greatest saint), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Early | early | ADV | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 century | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 century | det |
| 4 | 18th | 18th | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Combi NumType=Ord | 5 century | amod |
| 5 | century | century | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Early | obl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 saint | det |
| 7 | greatest | great | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 8 saint | amod |
| 8 | saint | saint | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 Niamat | nsubj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 Sind | case |
| 10 | Sind | Sind | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 saint | nmod |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 Niamat | cop |
| 12 | Makhdum | Makhdum | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Niamat | compound |
| 13 | Niamat | Niamat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 century | nmod |
| 14 | Ullah | Ullah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Niamat | flat |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 father | punct |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 father | det |
| 17 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 Niamat | appos |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 luminary | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 luminary | det |
| 20 | still | still | ADV | _ | 21 greater | advmod |
| 21 | greater | great | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 23 luminary | amod |
| 22 | religious | religious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 luminary | amod |
| 23 | luminary | luminary | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 father | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 Nuh | punct |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 Nuh | det |
| 26 | famous | famous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 Nuh | amod |
| 27 | Makhdum | Makhdum | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 Nuh | compound |
| 28 | Nuh | Nuh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Niamat | conj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Early | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the greatest saint in Sind | Makhdum Niamat and the famous Makhdum Nuh | the father of a greater religious luminary appos; the famous Makhdum Nuh conj | tree rules |
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.
Text: «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Project Gutenberg book 76982 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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