Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Makhdum Niamat Ullah and Makhdum Nuh., sentence 196
Once upon a time Brahmanabad, now a heap of ruins, was the glory of all Sind.
What happens: be · To what, where: glory
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: 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 | 15 glory | 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 | 1 Once | obl |
| 5 | Brahmanabad | Brahmanabad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 time | appos |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 heap | punct |
| 7 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 heap | advmod |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 heap | det |
| 9 | heap | heap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Brahmanabad | appos |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 ruins | case |
| 11 | ruins | ruin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 heap | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Once | punct |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 glory | cop |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 glory | det |
| 15 | glory | glory | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 Sind | case |
| 17 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 Sind | det |
| 18 | Sind | Sind | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 glory | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 glory | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the glory | now | of all Sind; once property | tree rules |
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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