Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Makhdum Niamat Ullah and Makhdum Nuh., sentence 194
Now let us turn to the Hindu legend which I came across in a Sind magazine.
Who acts: you, us, Hindu legend · What happens: let, turn, come · To what, where: us, Hindu legend, Sind magazine
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 (you, us, Hindu legend), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 let | advmod |
| 2 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 let | obj |
| 4 | turn | turn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 let | xcomp |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 legend | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 legend | det |
| 7 | Hindu | hindu | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 legend | amod |
| 8 | legend | legend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 turn | obl |
| 9 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 came | nsubj |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 came | nsubj |
| 11 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 legend | acl:relcl |
| 12 | across | across | ADV | _ | 11 came | advmod |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 magazine | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 magazine | det |
| 15 | Sind | Sind | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 magazine | compound |
| 16 | magazine | magazine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 came | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | imperative | you not said here | us | now | tree rules | |||
| 2 | turn | infinitive | us not said here | the Hindu legend | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to legend=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | come | past | the Hindu legend | a Sind magazine | I nsubj; across property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in magazine=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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