Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Makhdum Niamat Ullah and Makhdum Nuh., sentence 135
There were quantities of jewellery among the ruins, which neither fugitive inhabitants nor an enemy would have left.
Who acts: quantities, ruins, enemy · What happens: be, inhabitant, leave · To what, where: ruins, fugitive inhabitants
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 (quantities, ruins, enemy), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 were | expl |
| 2 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | quantities | quantity | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 were | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 jewellery | case |
| 5 | jewellery | jewellery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 quantities | nmod |
| 6 | among | among | ADP | _ | 8 ruins | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 ruins | det |
| 8 | ruins | ruin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 were | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 inhabitants | punct |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 inhabitants | nsubj |
| 11 | neither | neither | DET | PronType=Neg | 13 inhabitants | det |
| 12 | fugitive | fugitive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 inhabitants | amod |
| 13 | inhabitants | inhabitant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 ruins | conj |
| 14 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 13 inhabitants | cc |
| 15 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 enemy | det |
| 16 | enemy | enemy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 left | nsubj |
| 17 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 left | aux |
| 18 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 19 left | aux |
| 19 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 inhabitants | acl:relcl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 were | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | quantities of jewellery | the ruins nor neither fugitive inhabitants; there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme among ruin=Location | ||||
| 2 | inhabitant | the ruins nor neither fugitive inhabitants | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | leave | would · perfect | a enemy | neither fugitive inhabitants not said here | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent inhabitant=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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