Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Makhdum Niamat Ullah and Makhdum Nuh., sentence 122
Perhaps the most interesting relic of that golden time is a great “djar” tree that grows near Shah Makai’s tomb.
Who acts: interesting relic, great djar tree · What happens: be, grow · To what, where: great djar tree, tomb
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 (interesting relic, great djar tree), 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 | Perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 5 relic | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 relic | det |
| 3 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 4 interesting | advmod |
| 4 | interesting | interesting | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 relic | amod |
| 5 | relic | relic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 tree | nsubj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 time | case |
| 7 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 time | det |
| 8 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 time | amod |
| 9 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 relic | nmod |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 tree | cop |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 tree | det |
| 12 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 tree | amod |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 djar | punct |
| 14 | djar | djar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 tree | compound |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 djar | punct |
| 16 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 17 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 grows | nsubj |
| 18 | grows | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 tree | acl:relcl |
| 19 | near | near | ADP | _ | 23 tomb | case |
| 20 | Shah | Shah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 tomb | nmod:poss |
| 21 | Makai | Makai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Shah | flat |
| 22 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 20 Shah | case |
| 23 | tomb | tomb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 grows | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 tree | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the interesting relic of that golden time | a great djar tree | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | grow | present | a great djar tree | Shah's tomb | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near tomb=Location |
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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