Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Makhdum Niamat Ullah and Makhdum Nuh., sentence 145
Once upon a time there ruled over the city of Brahmanabad a Hindu king, called Dalu Rai (May Allah confound him!) whose wickedness is still well remembered in the land of Sind.
Who acts: Hindu king · What happens: rule, call, confound, remember · To what, where: Hindu king, Dalu, city, wickedness, land · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Hindu king), 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 | Once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 6 ruled | advmod |
| 2 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 4 time | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 time | det |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 ruled | obl |
| 5 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 ruled | advmod |
| 6 | ruled | rule | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | over | over | ADP | _ | 9 city | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 city | det |
| 9 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 confound | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 Brahmanabad | case |
| 11 | Brahmanabad | Brahmanabad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 city | nmod |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 king | det |
| 13 | Hindu | hindu | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 king | amod |
| 14 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 confound | nsubj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 called | punct |
| 16 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 king | acl |
| 17 | Dalu | Dalu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 called | xcomp |
| 18 | Rai | Rai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Dalu | flat |
| 19 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 21 Allah | punct |
| 20 | May | May | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Allah | compound |
| 21 | Allah | Allah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Dalu | conj |
| 22 | confound | confound | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 ruled | ccomp |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 confound | obj |
| 24 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 22 confound | punct |
| 25 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 6 ruled | punct |
| 26 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 27 wickedness | nmod:poss |
| 27 | wickedness | wickedness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 remembered | nsubj:pass |
| 28 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 remembered | aux:pass |
| 29 | still | still | ADV | _ | 31 remembered | advmod |
| 30 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 31 remembered | advmod |
| 31 | remembered | remember | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 ruled | parataxis |
| 32 | in | in | ADP | _ | 34 land | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 land | det |
| 34 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 remembered | obl |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 Sind | case |
| 36 | Sind | Sind | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 land | nmod |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 ruled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rule | past | there | time | once property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | call | participle | a Hindu king not said here | Dalu and May Allah xcomp | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | confound | infinitive | a Hindu king | Dalu | the city of Brahmanabad | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer | |||
| 4 | remember | present · passive | wickedness | the land of Sind | still | well property | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=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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