Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Makhdum Niamat Ullah and Makhdum Nuh., sentence 116
Within it are preserved the stones on which Haidar Ali’s white mule Dhul Dhul did its miracle-working dance.
Who acts: white mule, quarter · What happens: preserve, do, work, dance · To what, where: quarter, working dance, stones
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 (white mule, 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 | Within | within | ADP | _ | 4 preserved | mark |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 preserved | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 preserved | aux:pass |
| 4 | preserved | preserve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 stones | det |
| 6 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 preserved | obj |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 which | case |
| 8 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 did | obl |
| 9 | Haidar | Haidar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Ali | compound |
| 10 | Ali | Ali | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 mule | nmod:poss |
| 11 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 10 Ali | case |
| 12 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 mule | amod |
| 13 | mule | mule | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 did | nsubj |
| 14 | Dhul | Dhul | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 mule | appos |
| 15 | Dhul | Dhul | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Dhul | flat |
| 16 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 stones | acl:relcl |
| 17 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 dance | nmod:poss |
| 18 | miracle | miracle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 working | compound |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 miracle | punct |
| 20 | working | work | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 21 dance | amod |
| 21 | dance | dance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 did | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 preserved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | preserve | present · passive | quarter | the stones obj | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | do | past | Haidar Ali's white mule | quarter's working dance | the stones | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dance=Eventuality | |||
| 3 | work | gerund | miracle compound | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | dance | quarter | nom dance «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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