Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Makhdum Niamat Ullah and Makhdum Nuh., sentence 133
The destruction of Brahmanabad, wrote Mr. Bellasis, was so complete that it could not have been caused by a fire or by a hostile force.
Who acts: destruction, Bellasis, fire · What happens: write, be, not cause, destroy · To what, where: destruction, 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 (destruction, Bellasis, fire), 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 | 2 destruction | det |
| 2 | destruction | destruction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 wrote | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 Brahmanabad | case |
| 4 | Brahmanabad | Brahmanabad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 destruction | nmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 destruction | punct |
| 6 | wrote | write | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Bellasis | nmod:desc |
| 8 | Bellasis | Bellasis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 complete | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Bellasis | punct |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 complete | cop |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 complete | advmod |
| 12 | complete | complete | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 wrote | ccomp |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 caused | mark |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 caused | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 caused | aux |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 caused | advmod |
| 17 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 19 caused | aux |
| 18 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 19 caused | aux:pass |
| 19 | caused | cause | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 complete | advcl |
| 20 | by | by | ADP | _ | 22 fire | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 fire | det |
| 22 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 caused | obl |
| 23 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 27 force | cc |
| 24 | by | by | ADP | _ | 27 force | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 force | det |
| 26 | hostile | hostile | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 force | amod |
| 27 | force | force | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 fire | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 wrote | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | write | past | the destruction of Brahmanabad | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | past | Bellasis Mr. | complete property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not cause | could · perfect · passive | a fire or a hostile force | destruction | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition subject=Patient | ||||
| 4 | destroy | Brahmanabad | nom destruction «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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