Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Makhdum Niamat Ullah and Makhdum Nuh., sentence 118
By its side a slab bears the marks of Haidar Ali’s hands, knees, feet and forehead, which he made when he prostrated himself in prayer before Allah.
Who acts: slab bears, hand · What happens: make, prostrate, mark · To what, where: hand, prayer, hands
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 (slab bears, hand), 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 | By | by | ADP | _ | 3 side | case |
| 2 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 side | nmod:poss |
| 3 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 bears | det |
| 5 | slab | slab | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bears | compound |
| 6 | bears | bear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 side | nmod |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 marks | det |
| 8 | marks | mark | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 bears | nmod |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 hands | case |
| 10 | Haidar | Haidar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Ali | compound |
| 11 | Ali | Ali | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 hands | nmod:poss |
| 12 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 11 Ali | case |
| 13 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 marks | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 knees | punct |
| 15 | knees | knee | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 hands | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 feet | punct |
| 17 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 bears | conj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 forehead | cc |
| 19 | forehead | forehead | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bears | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 made | punct |
| 21 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 made | nsubj |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 made | nsubj |
| 23 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 bears | conj |
| 24 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 26 prostrated | advmod |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 prostrated | nsubj |
| 26 | prostrated | prostrate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 made | advcl |
| 27 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 26 prostrated | obj |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 prayer | case |
| 29 | prayer | prayer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 prostrated | obl |
| 30 | before | before | ADP | _ | 31 Allah | case |
| 31 | Allah | Allah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 prostrated | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 side | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | a slab bears the marks of Haidar Ali's hands and knees and feet and forehead | hand nsubj | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||
| 2 | prostrate | past | hand | hand | prayer | before Allah | tree rules | ||
| 4 | mark | Haidar Ali's hands and knees | nom mark «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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