Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Makhdum Niamat Ullah and Makhdum Nuh., sentence 137

The skeletons have long ago gone to manure the neighbouring fields, just as the bricks of the houses in which they once lived are to be found in the villages round about.

Who acts: skeletons · What happens: go, manure, live, find · To what, where: neighbouring fields, houses, bricks, villages

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 (skeletons), 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 skeletons	det
2	skeletons	skeleton	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 gone	nsubj
3	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 gone	aux
4	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 ago	advmod
5	ago	ago	ADV	_	6 gone	advmod
6	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 manure	mark
8	manure	manure	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 gone	advcl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 fields	det
10	neighbouring	neighbouring	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 fields	compound
11	fields	field	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 manure	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 bricks	punct
13	just	just	ADV	_	16 bricks	advmod
14	as	as	ADP	_	16 bricks	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 bricks	det
16	bricks	brick	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 found	nsubj
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 houses	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 houses	det
19	houses	house	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 bricks	nmod
20	in	in	ADP	_	21 which	case
21	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 lived	obl
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 lived	nsubj
23	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	24 lived	advmod
24	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 houses	acl:relcl
25	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 found	aux:pass
26	to	to	PART	_	28 found	mark
27	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	28 found	aux:pass
28	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 gone	conj
29	in	in	ADP	_	31 villages	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 villages	det
31	villages	village	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 found	obl
32	round	round	ADV	_	28 found	advmod
33	about	about	ADV	_	28 found	advmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 gone	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	present · perfect	the skeletons			ago property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	manure	to-infinitive	the skeletons not said here	the neighbouring fields			vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent field=Patient
3	live	past	skeletons = skeleton		the houses	once property	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in which=Location
4	find	present · passive		the bricks of the houses	the villages	about, round property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic

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 137

The tree

Pragmatics

Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Makhdum Niamat Ullah and Makhdum Nuh., sentence 137