Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Makhdum Niamat Ullah and Makhdum Nuh., sentence 132

His conclusion was that the city had been overwhelmed by an earthquake, which at the same time changed the bed of the Indus, formerly close by the city walls and the source of its greatness.

Who acts: Bellasis · What happens: be, change, conclude · To what, where: conclusion, bed

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 (Bellasis), 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	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 conclusion	nmod:poss
2	conclusion	conclusion	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 overwhelmed	nsubj:outer
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 overwhelmed	cop
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 overwhelmed	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 city	det
6	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 overwhelmed	nsubj:pass
7	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 overwhelmed	aux
8	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 overwhelmed	aux:pass
9	overwhelmed	overwhelm	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
10	by	by	ADP	_	12 earthquake	case
11	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 earthquake	det
12	earthquake	earthquake	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 changed	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 changed	punct
14	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 changed	nsubj
15	at	at	ADP	_	18 time	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 time	det
17	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 time	amod
18	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 changed	obl
19	changed	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 overwhelmed	parataxis
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 bed	det
21	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 changed	obj
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 Indus	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 Indus	det
24	Indus	Indus	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 bed	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 close	punct
26	formerly	formerly	ADV	_	27 close	advmod
27	close	close	ADV	Degree=Pos	19 changed	advmod
28	by	by	ADP	_	31 walls	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 walls	det
30	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 walls	compound
31	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 close	obl
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 source	cc
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 source	det
34	source	source	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 walls	conj
35	of	of	ADP	_	37 greatness	case
36	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 greatness	nmod:poss
37	greatness	greatness	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 source	nmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 overwhelmed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past · perfect · passive		Bellasis's conclusion		the city nsubj:pass; overwhelm property	tree rules
2	change	past		the bed of the Indus	time	by a earthquake; which nsubj; close property	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bed=Patient
3	conclude		Bellasis				nom conclusion «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

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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🌲 Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Makhdum Niamat Ullah and Makhdum Nuh., sentence 132

The tree

Pragmatics

Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Makhdum Niamat Ullah and Makhdum Nuh., sentence 132