Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Makhdum Niamat Ullah and Makhdum Nuh., sentence 121
The well into which Nigar was thrown is one of the three inside Nerankot, but none could tell me with certainty which it was.
Who acts: none · What happens: throw, be, tell · To what, where: Nigar, thrown one, me · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (none), 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 | 9 one | det |
| 2 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 thrown | advmod |
| 3 | into | into | ADP | _ | 4 which | case |
| 4 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 thrown | obl |
| 5 | Nigar | Nigar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 thrown | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 thrown | aux:pass |
| 7 | thrown | throw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 one | amod |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 one | cop |
| 9 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 three | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 three | det |
| 12 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 one | nmod |
| 13 | inside | inside | ADP | _ | 14 Nerankot | case |
| 14 | Nerankot | Nerankot | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 three | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 tell | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 tell | cc |
| 17 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 19 tell | nsubj |
| 18 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 tell | aux |
| 19 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 one | acl:relcl |
| 20 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 tell | iobj |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 certainty | case |
| 22 | certainty | certainty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 tell | obl |
| 23 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 was | nsubj |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 was | nsubj |
| 25 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 tell | ccomp |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 one | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | throw | past · passive | Nigar | which obl; well property | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: subject=Theme into which=Result | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | the thrown one | of the three inside Nerankot | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | could | none | me | with certainty | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 4 | be | past | which nsubj; certainty nsubj | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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