Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Makhdum Niamat Ullah and Makhdum Nuh., sentence 106
The Arabs landing on the sea coast of Sind swept through the land, stormed Nerankot and killed Raja Neran.
Who acts: Arabs · What happens: land, sweep, storm, kill · To what, where: sea coast, land, Nerankot, Raja
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 (Arabs), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Arabs | det |
| 2 | Arabs | Arab | PROPN | Number=Plur | 10 swept | nsubj |
| 3 | landing | land | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 Arabs | acl |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 coast | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 coast | det |
| 6 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 coast | compound |
| 7 | coast | coast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 landing | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 Sind | case |
| 9 | Sind | Sind | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 coast | nmod |
| 10 | swept | sweep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | through | through | ADP | _ | 13 land | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 land | det |
| 13 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 swept | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 stormed | punct |
| 15 | stormed | storm | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 swept | parataxis |
| 16 | Nerankot | Nerankot | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 stormed | obj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 killed | cc |
| 18 | killed | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 stormed | conj |
| 19 | Raja | Raja | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 killed | obj |
| 20 | Neran | Neran | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Raja | flat |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 swept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | land | gerund | the Arabs not said here | the sea coast of Sind | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme on coast=Destination | ||||
| 2 | sweep | past | the Arabs | the land | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through land=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | storm | past | Nerankot | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | kill | past | Raja | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent raja=Theme |
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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