Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Makhdum Niamat Ullah and Makhdum Nuh., sentence 115
About a quarter of a mile from the tomb of Shah Makai is another small but holy building known as Shah Kadam.
Who acts: quarter · What happens: be, know · To what, where: small building
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 (quarter), 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 | About | about | ADV | _ | 3 quarter | advmod |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 quarter | det |
| 3 | quarter | quarter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 building | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 mile | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 mile | det |
| 6 | mile | mile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 quarter | nmod |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 tomb | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 tomb | det |
| 9 | tomb | tomb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 mile | nmod |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 Shah | case |
| 11 | Shah | Shah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 tomb | nmod |
| 12 | Makai | Makai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Shah | flat |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 building | cop |
| 14 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 18 building | det |
| 15 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 building | amod |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 holy | cc |
| 17 | holy | holy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 small | conj |
| 18 | building | building | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 19 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 building | acl |
| 20 | as | as | ADP | _ | 21 Shah | case |
| 21 | Shah | Shah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 known | obl |
| 22 | Kadam | Kadam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Shah | flat |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 building | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a quarter of a mile from the tomb of Shah | another small building | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | know | participle | another small building not said here | as Shah | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer as shah=Attribute |
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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