Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Makhdum Niamat Ullah and Makhdum Nuh., sentence 125
The ruined town of Brahmanabad, probably the most interesting spot in Sind, lies about eleven miles from Shahdadpur.
Who acts: ruined town · What happens: ruin, lie · To what, where: eleven miles, Shahdadpur
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 (ruined town), 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 | 3 town | det |
| 2 | ruined | ruin | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 town | amod |
| 3 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 lies | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Brahmanabad | case |
| 5 | Brahmanabad | Brahmanabad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 town | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 spot | punct |
| 7 | probably | probably | ADV | _ | 11 spot | advmod |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 spot | det |
| 9 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 10 interesting | advmod |
| 10 | interesting | interesting | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 spot | amod |
| 11 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 town | obl |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 Sind | case |
| 13 | Sind | Sind | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 spot | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 town | punct |
| 15 | lies | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | about | about | ADV | _ | 17 eleven | advmod |
| 17 | eleven | eleven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 miles | nummod |
| 18 | miles | mile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 lies | obj |
| 19 | from | from | ADP | _ | 20 Shahdadpur | case |
| 20 | Shahdadpur | Shahdadpur | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 miles | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 lies | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ruin | participle | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | lie | present | the ruined town of Brahmanabad the interesting spot in Sind | eleven miles | Shahdadpur | vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location mile=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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