Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Makhdum Niamat Ullah and Makhdum Nuh., sentence 142
They differ widely from each other, only agreeing in this that the end of Brahmanabad came because of God’s wrath at the wickedness of its ruler, Dalu Rai.
Who acts: legends, end · What happens: differ, agree, come · To what, where: this, wickedness
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 (legends, end), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 differ | nsubj |
| 2 | differ | differ | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | widely | widely | ADV | _ | 2 differ | advmod |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 each | case |
| 5 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 2 differ | obl |
| 6 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 each | fixed |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 agreeing | punct |
| 8 | only | only | ADV | _ | 9 agreeing | advmod |
| 9 | agreeing | agree | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 differ | advcl |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 this | case |
| 11 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 agreeing | obl |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 came | mark |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 end | det |
| 14 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 came | nsubj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 Brahmanabad | case |
| 16 | Brahmanabad | Brahmanabad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 end | nmod |
| 17 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 agreeing | advcl |
| 18 | because | because | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 22 wrath | case |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 because | fixed |
| 20 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 wrath | nmod:poss |
| 21 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 20 God | case |
| 22 | wrath | wrath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 came | obl |
| 23 | at | at | ADP | _ | 25 wickedness | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 wickedness | det |
| 25 | wickedness | wickedness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 came | obl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 ruler | case |
| 27 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 ruler | nmod:poss |
| 28 | ruler | ruler | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 wickedness | nmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 Dalu | punct |
| 30 | Dalu | Dalu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 ruler | appos |
| 31 | Rai | Rai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 Dalu | flat |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 differ | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | differ | present | legends = legend | from each; widely property | vn differ-23.4 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme from each=Co-Theme | ||||
| 2 | agree speech: agree | gerund | legends = legend not said here | this | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | come | past | the end of Brahmanabad | the wickedness of end's ruler | because God's wrath | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at wickedness=Location |
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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