Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Makhdum Niamat Ullah and Makhdum Nuh., sentence 138
Still we may safely accept the evidence of Mr. Bellasis as well as the accuracy of his conclusions.
Who acts: we, Bellasis · What happens: accept, evidence, conclude · To what, where: evidence, Bellasis
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 (we, 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 | Still | still | ADV | _ | 5 accept | advmod |
| 2 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 accept | nsubj |
| 3 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 accept | aux |
| 4 | safely | safely | ADV | _ | 5 accept | advmod |
| 5 | accept | accept | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 evidence | det |
| 7 | evidence | evidence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 accept | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Bellasis | case |
| 9 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Bellasis | nmod:desc |
| 10 | Bellasis | Bellasis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 evidence | nmod |
| 11 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=CCONJ | 15 accuracy | cc |
| 12 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 11 as | fixed |
| 13 | as | as | ADP | _ | 11 as | fixed |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 accuracy | det |
| 15 | accuracy | accuracy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 evidence | conj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 conclusions | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 conclusions | nmod:poss |
| 18 | conclusions | conclusion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 accuracy | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 accept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | accept | may | we | the evidence of Bellasis Mr. as the accuracy of Bellasis's conclusions | still | safely property | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent evidence=Theme | ||
| 2 | evidence | Bellasis Mr. | nom evidence «cognition transitive»: of=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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