Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Makhdum Niamat Ullah and Makhdum Nuh., sentence 127
When Brahmanabad is reached one sees, as far as the eye can range, an endless waste of brick ruins, the site of a once mighty city.
Who acts: eye · What happens: reach, see, range · To what, where: Brahmanabad
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 (eye), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 4 reached | mark |
| 2 | Brahmanabad | Brahmanabad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 reached | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 reached | aux:pass |
| 4 | reached | reach | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 sees | advcl |
| 5 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 reached | obj |
| 6 | sees | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 far | punct |
| 8 | as | as | ADV | _ | 9 far | advmod |
| 9 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 sees | advmod |
| 10 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 14 range | mark |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 eye | det |
| 12 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 range | nsubj |
| 13 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 range | aux |
| 14 | range | range | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 far | advcl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 waste | punct |
| 16 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 waste | det |
| 17 | endless | endless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 waste | amod |
| 18 | waste | waste | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sees | parataxis |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 ruins | case |
| 20 | brick | brick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 ruins | compound |
| 21 | ruins | ruin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 waste | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 site | punct |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 site | det |
| 24 | site | site | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 waste | conj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 city | case |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 city | det |
| 27 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 28 mighty | advmod |
| 28 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 city | amod |
| 29 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 site | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 sees | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | present · passive | Brahmanabad | one obj | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary one=Theme | ||||
| 2 | see | present | a endless waste of brick ruins and the site of a mighty city parataxis; far property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | range | can | the eye | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: 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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