Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Makhdum Niamat Ullah and Makhdum Nuh., sentence 109
While the new fortress was building, he raised a small mud stronghold close to the spot where Shah Makai and the beautiful Painted Lady were in their old age buried side by side.
Who acts: new fortress, fortress, Shah, old age · What happens: build, raise, be, bury · To what, where: small mud stronghold, old age, side
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 (new fortress, fortress, Shah, old age), 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 | While | while | SCONJ | _ | 6 building | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 fortress | det |
| 3 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 fortress | amod |
| 4 | fortress | fortress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 building | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 building | aux |
| 6 | building | build | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 raised | advcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 building | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 raised | nsubj |
| 9 | raised | raise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 stronghold | det |
| 11 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 stronghold | amod |
| 12 | mud | mud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 stronghold | compound |
| 13 | stronghold | stronghold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 raised | obj |
| 14 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 stronghold | amod |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 spot | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 spot | det |
| 17 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 close | obl |
| 18 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 17 spot | advmod |
| 19 | Shah | Shah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 age | nsubj |
| 20 | Makai | Makai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Shah | flat |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 Lady | cc |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 Lady | det |
| 23 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 Lady | amod |
| 24 | Painted | Painted | PROPN | _ | 25 Lady | compound |
| 25 | Lady | Lady | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Shah | conj |
| 26 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 age | cop |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 age | case |
| 28 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 age | nmod:poss |
| 29 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 age | amod |
| 30 | age | age | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 where | nsubj |
| 31 | buried | bury | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 30 age | acl |
| 32 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 buried | obl:unmarked |
| 33 | by | by | ADP | _ | 34 side | case |
| 34 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 buried | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 raised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | build | past · progressive | the new fortress | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | raise | past | fortress | a small mud stronghold | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stronghold=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | past | Shah and the beautiful Painted Lady | in Shah's old age | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | bury | participle | Shah's old age not said here | side | by side | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent by side=Destination |
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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